Saturday, 15 June 2013

Friedel-Crafts Acylation

Friedel-Crafts acylation is the reaction of benzene and substituted benzenes with acid chlorides in the presence of a Lewis acid catalyst.  The net reaction is an electrophilic aromatic substitution.
eg:


net reaction:


mechanism:


Step 1:


Step 2:


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