Is it necessary to have oh group of phenol valways at ortho or para position ?Can oh group be at metaposition in "phenol"?

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Ernest Z.
Feb 23, 2018

No, the #"OH"# group in phenol is by definition at "#C1"#.

Explanation:

The structure of phenol is

phenol

You can draw the structure like this:

phenol2enter image source here

However, the structure is not meta-phenol. It is phenol because the ring carbon attached to the #"OH"# group is now #"C1"#.

The #"OH"# carbon can be on any carbon atom of the ring, and the compound is still phenol,

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