Cumene process is the most important commercial method for the manufacture of phenol. Cumene is:

1 -

methyl ethyl benzene

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Solution

The correct option is B $1 -$ methyl ethyl benzene
Cumene is 1-methyl ethyl benzene.

Hence the correct option is A.

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