Question
How will you separate a mixture of o-nitrophenol and p-nitrophenol?

Answer

Steam distillation because o-nitrophenol is steam volatile due to weaker intramolecular H-bonding while p-nitrophenol is not steam volatile due to stronger inter molecular H-bonding.

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