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What happens when phenol reacts with bromine in solvent of low polarity like CS₂or CHCl₃ at low temperature? Give a mechanism for the reaction.

Phenol reacts with Br₂/CS₂ to give monobromo derivatives.

The mechanism of the reaction is as follows.

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