Talk:Phenol

Removal of "Phenylic Acid" as alternative name for Phenol

Phenylic acid and Phenol have differing structures according to chemdraw:

You may insert this CDXML into Chemdraw to see the structures side by side. I cannot upload an image for some reason.

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Phenol is still widely used as an antiseptic

Under the "medical" section it says that phenol was once widely used as an antiseptic. It still is widely used as an antiseptic!

Meaning of "skin irritation has led to .."

Quote: "The skin irritation caused by continual exposure to phenol eventually led to the introduction of aseptic (germ-free) techniques in surgery." -- I don't understand the meaning of the sentence. Skin irritation led to introduction of aseptic techniques? O_O --CopperKettle (talk) 08:18, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

I think that the fact that phenol is a skin irritant suggested to post-Pasteur scientists that it attacked living organisms/cells, which led to its early implementation as a disinfectant. BTW, much of that section is about Lister, not phenol, so much could be removed as being off-topic content.--Smokefoot (talk) 13:53, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

Acidity of phenol

Section "Acidity" begins with the sentence: "Phenol is a weak acid (pH 6.6)". Now, in my opinion, since at room temperature the solubility of phenol in water is 0.895 mol/L and its ionization constant is about 1.12×10⁻¹⁰ , the pH of a saturated solution of phenol is 5.0 . So, for unsaturated solutions, any pH value berween 5 and 7 is possible, depending on the concentration. In particular, pH 6.6 reported in the article would occur for the rather low concentration of 5×10⁻⁴ mol/L. Briefly, I don't understand where that pH value 6.6 comes from. Ekisbares (talk) 17:53, 16 December 2024 (UTC)