Question

Benzene reacts with ch3cocl in the presence of alcl3 to give

Answer 1

AlCl3 is considered to be a Lewis Acid or in simpler words an “electron hungry species”. So, when it sees Acetyl Chloride (CH3COCl) it extracts the -Cl minus from the latter and itself gets transformed into AlCl4 minus. Now it is quite stable because his hunger has been satisfied.

Now it leaves behind an electrophile -COCH3 minus. We all know that benzene undergoes aromatic electrophilic substitution reactions. As a result the other electrophile gets attached to the benzene ring thereby forming Acetophenone (C6H5COCH3).

Answer 2

hey mate here is your answer.....

When benzene reacts with ch3cocl in the presence of alcl3 Acetophenone(c6h5coch3) will form.This is a electrophilic substitution reaction. It is popularly named as as friedal Craft's acylation reaction.

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