Treatment of Phenol with Chlorform in the presence of aqueous sodium or potassium hydroxide at 340K followed by hydrolysis of the resulting product gives 2 hydroxy benzaldehyde (salicylaldhyde) . This reaction is called Reimer Tiemann reaction.
if CCl4 is taken in the place of chloroform then Salicylic acid is form .
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