Assertion: benzene's use | /r/AtLocation | polycarbonate synthesis
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text: The current market situation trends to a further worsening for the acetone sale price in the future, based mainly on two facts: (i) on one hand, all volatile organic compounds (including acetone) are subjected to a strong, increasing environmental pressure, urging for their substitution in the medium term and (ii) on the other hand, the main current use of phenol is in polycarbonate synthesis, which does not actually require phenol itself but rather bisphenol A, whose production requires just one mole of acetone per two moles of phenol (Equation 13.3), inherently leading then to unbalanced acetone and phenol consumptions: