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Why is phenol more acidic than ethanol?

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Why is phenol more acidic than ethanol?

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the charge around the aromatic system due to the pi electron cloud,straight chain alcohols cannot do this so it is less favourable to deprotonate them hance it is easier to deprotonate a phenol,hence we say it is more acidic

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