Why does phenol react more readily with bromine than benzene?
The oxygen on the OH (of the phenol) has a lone pair which it donates into the delocalised pi system of the ringThis activates the ring and there is now a high electron density.This is now strong enough to polarise the Bromine bond and can then react via electrophillic substitution
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