If possible, use the para-nitroaniline that you synthesized in the Aromatic Multistep
Synthesis lab. Beta-naphthol is a suspected carcinogen: to minimize the risk of handling this compound, it will be prepared for you as a solution and kept in the hood at
all times. Note that ß-naphthol is dissolved in a base; this is to make the phenol
group highly activated to electrophilic aromatic substitution.