Answer to Question #87379 in Organic Chemistry for Ibrahim jibrin

Question

1.) An organic chemist undertook a research on the electrophilic nitration of benzene and methyl benzene and submitted the following summarized report:
Electrophilic nitration of methylbenzene (toluene) is considerably faster than the nitration of benzene itself.
(i) Give reasons to either justify or refute the result.
(ii) Write the equation for the two conversions

2.) Write short note on Friedel-Craft Acylation.

Answer 1

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