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For questions about the properties and reactions of aromatic compounds. This tag should also be applied to antiaromatic compounds. This tag should not be applied to general questions about resonance, use the [resonance] tag instead.

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Does rearrangement occur in Friedel Crafts alkylation or not?

When you conduct the alkylation of benzene with n-propyl chloride, the product you obtain is isopropylbenzene, so a rearrangement occurred by virtue of the fact that the primary carbocation that forms …
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What hinders SN2 more: geminal alkyl group or alkyl group on the aromatic ring?

The correct answer is X because the 2 methyl groups on the Y are bulky enough to cause steric hindrance. Surprisingly, from what I have seen, if you only had one methyl group on Y, the SN2 reaction wo …
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Why do electron donating groups decrease the acidity of aromatic carboxylic acids?

If you look closely at your diagram, you will notice that once benzoic acid has released its proton, the conjugate base that is formed has 6 resonance structures out of which 4 have 2 more charges tha …
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Phenol and Deuterated Sulphuric Acid

Since phenol exhibits acidity ( phenol is a weak acid ), the first hydrogen atom to be replaced by deuterium will be the one in the hydroxyl group. Then, ortho and para positions relative to the hydro …
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