How do you get salicylic acid from phenol ?

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Treating sodium phenolate (the sodium salt of phenol) with carbon dioxide at high pressure (100 atm) and high temperature (390K) - a method known as the Kolbe-Schmitt reaction and then acidification of the product with sulfuric acid gives salicylic acid.
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Apply reimer tiemann reaction(phenol+PYRENE+KOH------------>salicylic acid)
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Refer Riemer Tiemman Reaction-
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By carboxylation of phenol called Kolbe's carboxylation.....Phenol reacts with Carbon Di- Oxide in Presence of NaOH and heat pressure to get Salicylic acid.
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By kolbes reaction (phenol first reacts with sodium hydroxide to form sodium phenoxideion which then undergoes electrophilic substitution reaction with carbon dioxide to form salicylic acid (o- hydroxybenzoic acid)
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kolbes reaction (phenol first reacts with sodium hydroxide to form sodium phenoxideion which then undergoes electrophilic substitution reaction with carbon dioxide to form salicylic acid (o- hydroxybenzoic acid)
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By hydrolysis of acetyl salicylic acid
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2 hydroxy benzenoic acid
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Phenol is on treatment with NaOH or KOH, CCl4 and at last on hydrolysis gives salicylic acid. C6H5OH + CCl4 + NaOH = C6H4(OH)COOH salicylic acid + NaCl + H2O
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Sodium salicylate is commercially prepared by treating phenol with carbon dioxide at high pressure (100 atm) and high temperature (390K) -a method known as the Kolbe-Schmitt reaction. Acidification of the product with sulfuric acid gives salicylic acid:
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