Which is more activating among Phenol, Sodium Phenoxide & Anisole? Also arrange them in increasing order of their activating effect
Sodium Phenoxide is much more activating than phenol itself. Because here directly one negative charge comes and bond with the C below and the pi bond shifts to the ortho position as negative charge. And it also answers your doubt that why ortho product is major.
You can refer to this mechanism. After reacting with OH- then the tautomerization takes place but before it no effect where as in case of phenoxide it can perform the same reaction even without OH-
So activation order
Anisole