Today’s Reaction Friday is about the Friedel Crafts acylation of benzene and other aromatics, an important example of electrophilic aromatic substitution. One thing I forgot to say at the bottom is that there’s several different ways of showing how the acyl halide is activated by Lewis acid – the convention I drew is common, but [...]
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