Question

Write chemical reaction of aniline with benzoyl chloride and write the name of the product obtained.

Answer 1

Reaction of aniline with benzoyl chloride

Reaction of aniline with benzoyl chloride is a nucleophilic addition reaction. Here nitrogen of aniline act as nucleophile due to lone pair of $N$ atom and carbonyl carbon act as electrophile due to partial positive charge on it.

In this reaction, nucleophilic nitrogen attacks on the electrophilic carbon of benzoyl chloride to proceed the reaction, then elimination of $C{l}^{-}$ takes place and base abstracts proton to form $\text{N− phenylbenzamide}$ as a final product and $HCl$ found to be a by-product of the reaction.

Involved reaction and mechanism is shown below-