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give the chemical reaction of boiling toluene reacting with chlorine in the presence of sunlight

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Answered by aditawesomebohr

Toluene reacts with Cl2 in sunlight to form benzyl chloride. Benzyl chloride further reacts with NaOH to give benzyl alcohol.

aditawesomebohr: c7h8 + cl2 ->c7h7cl

aditawesomebohr: in th epresence of direct sunlight\

Answered by siril

Sunlight instigates free radical mechanism in this reaction.

Due to this the Chlorine-chlorine bond is broken homogeneously thus forming chlorine free radicals.

Thus the chlorine instead of substituting on the benzene ring gets substituted on the methyl group.

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