Answer to Question #208057 in Organic Chemistry for Vee Cee

Question #208057

reaction of anthracene with HCHO and HCl


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2021-06-18T07:23:28-0400

This reaction is chloromethylation, similar to Blanc chloromethylation, but using AlCl3 as co-catalyst instead of ZnCl2. These are reactions belonging to a group related to Friedel-Crafts reactions, but characterized by usage of protonation instead of coordination with molecular Lewis acids.


Mechanism of your reaction (not accounting for influence of co-catalyst) can be written as:


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