Sodium phenoxide

Solvent-free material is polymeric, each Na center being bound to three oxygen ligands as well as the phenyl ring.

Adducts of sodium phenoxide are molecular, such as the cubane-type cluster [NaOPh]4(HMPA)4.

With acylating agents, one obtains phenyl esters:[citation needed] Sodium phenoxide is susceptible to certain types of electrophilic aromatic substitutions.

For example, it reacts with carbon dioxide to form 2-hydroxybenzoate, the conjugate base of salicylic acid.

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Part of the crystal structure of pure sodium phenoxide
Subunit of the crystal structure of pure sodium phenoxide, illustrating the binding of phenoxide ions to sodium through both the oxygen and the arene.
The Kolbe–Schmitt reaction.
The Kolbe–Schmitt reaction .