Dependence of Phenol Toxicity on Kind and Position of Substitutes
Toxicity of 28 phenol derivatives with different alkyl substitutes in 2-, 6-positions and NH2 , CN, ОН functional groups in 4-position was studied. The least toxicity has phenols with two tert-butyl substitutes in o-position. The toxicity increases with functional p-substitutes removal from benzene nuclei. The obtained results can help to synthesize new nontoxic bioactive phenols.