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The industrial synthesis of phenol from cumene involves the acid hydrolysis of the key intermediate,cumene hydroperoxide (formed from cumene via oxidation).Outline the mechanistic steps that lead to this oxidation product.Which other industrially important substance is produced as a by-product in this reaction? The industrial synthesis of phenol from cumene involves the acid hydrolysis of the key intermediate,cumene hydroperoxide (formed from cumene via oxidation).Outline the mechanistic steps that lead to this oxidation product.Which other industrially important substance is produced as a by-product in this reaction?


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