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Aromatic Substitution

Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution

Answers for Exercise

1.

2. Nitration is substitution of a nitro group into the aromatic ring

3. By Freidel Crafts acylation.

4. In nitration it is the nitronium ion NO2+ . In sulphonation it can be SO3 or SO3H+. In halogenation it is an adduct with FeCl3which is Cl+-Fe-Cl3. In alkylatio0n itis an adduct if it is a primary alkyl halide or a carbo cation itin the case of a secondary or tertiary alkyl halide, and in acylation it is the acylium ion.

5. A Lewis acid is an electron pair acceptor, it has a vacant orbital to accept a pair of electrons, examples, BF3 or H+