Question

What is a Friedel Crafts reaction?

Answer 1

Friedel Crafts reaction

• It is a type of electrophilic aromatic substitution reaction, where an electrophile is substituted at one of the positions of the benzene ring.
• There are two types of Friedel-Crafts reactions, Friedel-Crafts alkylation, and Friedel-Crafts acylation reaction.

Chemical Reaction

• The reaction is as follows,

• The mechanism of alkylation and acylation is as follows,