What is the major product formed when phenol reacts with sodium hydroxide and carbon dioxide?

Which of the following reactions is not an electrophilic substitution reaction?

What is the product formed when salicylic acid is treated with zinc dust?

The major products $X$ and $Y$ in the following sequence of transformations are:

Which of the following compounds reacts with ethylmagnesium bromide and also decolourizes bromine water solution?

$(A)$ Name the starting material used in the industrial preparation of phenol.
$(B)$ Write the complete reaction for the bromination of phenol in aqueous and non-aqueous medium.
$(C)$ Explain why a Lewis acid is not required in the bromination of phenol.