The electrolytic reduction of nitrobenzene in strongly acidic medium produces:
- p-aminophenol
- Azoxybenzene
- Azobenzene
- Aniline
Solution
The electrolytic reduction of nitrobenzene in an acidic medium gives phenyl hydroxyl amine. Since the medium is acidic so phenyl hydroxylamine undergoes rearrangement reaction and gives p-aminophenol.
Thus, under a strongly acidic medium, nitrobenzene on electrolytic reduction gives p-aminophenol.

Asked in: NEET 2015 (Phase 1)