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Chapter 12 Reactions of Arenes. Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution

12.1 Representative Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution Reactions of Benzene
12.2 Mechanistic Principles of Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution
12.3 Nitration of Benzene
12.4 Sulfonation of Benzene
12.5 Halogenation of Benzene
12.6 Friedel-Crafts Alkylation of Benzene
12.7 Friedel-Crafts Acylation of Benzene
12.8 Synthesis of Alkylbenzenes by Acylation-Reduction

12.9 Rate and Orientation in Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution
12.10 Rate and Orientation in the Nitration of Toluene
12.11 Rate and Orientation in the Nitration of (Trifluoromethyl)Benzene
12.12 Substituent Effects in Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution: Activating Substituents
12.13 Substituent Effects in Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution: Deactivating Substituents
12.14 Substituent Effects in Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution: Halogen Substituents

12.15 Multiple Substituent Effects
12.16 Regioselective Synthesis of Disubstituted Aromatic Compounds
12.17 Substitution in Naphthalene
12.18 Substitution in Heterocyclic Aromatic Compunds
12.19 Summary


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- #8 Electrophilici aromatic substitution
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Organic Reaction Mechanisms
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aromatic compounds
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-electrophilic aromatic substitution of toluene.


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