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Why is anhydrous AlCl₃ used as catalyst in several organic reactions?

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Anhydrous AlCl₃ is used as catalyst due to two major reason :
1.It is a lewis acid so its can accept electron to allow the formation of electrophile i.e carbocation
2.Its also increase the rate of reaction.

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