Friedel Crafts acylation of naphthalene
To ensure there's enough of it to allow the reaction to go to completion.
The process would be unfavourable since the nitro (-NO2) group is strongly deactivating and would render the benzene ring in nitrobenzene less susceptible to electrophilic attack.
The most general definition of an acid relies on Lewis acid/base theory, which defines an acid as a substance (usually an atom on a substance) that can accept an electron pair from another group.For example, the proton H+ can accept a lone electron pair from OH- and is therefore an acid by the Lewis definition (it is also a Brønsted-Lowry acid as well). The hydrogens in the hydronium ion, H3O+ (a more accurate representation of the "lone" proton, which chemists often use only for convenience) are also Lewis acids by the same reasoning.Iron(III) chloride, FeCl3, is an example of a Lewis acid that does not fit under the Arrhenius or Brønsted-Lowry definitions - it can accept a lone pair from, say, a chloride ion. This is particularly useful in Friedel-Crafts alkylation and acylation reactions.
Saturn was discovered by ancient Greeks and Romans, so sorry no space crafts.
Glacial acetic acid is a trivial name for water-free (anhydrous) acetic acidAs a general term, a substance is said to be anhydrous if it contains no water.Glacial acetic acid is an excellent polar protic solvent, as noted above. It is frequently used as a solvent for recrystallization to purify organic compounds.Acetic acid is often used as a solvent for reactions involving carbocations, such as Friedel-Crafts alkylation; here acetic acid acts both as a solvent and as a nucleophile to trap the rearranged carbocation.run in a glacial acetic acid in order to dissolve the starting materialsGlacial acetic acid (pure anhydrous acetic acid) is used as the reaction solvent, but it also plays an important role as an acid catalyst. Note that the halogenation reaction requires the reactant ketone be tautomerized to the enol form, which occurs under acid catalysis (base catalysis on the other hand would yield the corresponding enolate anion). So as the Br2 consumes the enol form by reacting with it, more enol will need to be generated and the acetic acid increases the rate at which this happens, thereby accelerating the overall reaction. The tautomerization mechanism involves simply protonation of the carbonyl oxygen of the ketone followed by deprotonation of its alpha carbon (carbon adjacent to the carbonyl carbon), with replacement of the CO double bond with a single bond and the formation of a double bond between the carbonyl carbon and the alpha carbon.
because the group added is a withdrawing group that deactivates the ring
The name of this reaction is Friedel-Crafts acylation. It should have a major product adding a ketone at the para position with regard to the isopropyl of the cumene.
To synthesize acetophenone from benzene, you just need to add the aldehyde to the benzene ring. This can be done via a Friedel-Crafts acylation. The reagents are an acid chloride (acetyl chloride in this case) and AlCl3 (stoichiometric).
This is an example of a Friedel-Crafts acylation. One hydrogen from the benzene is replaced by the acetyl portion of the acetyl chloride and the hydrogen and chloride from the benzene and acetyl chloride respectively combine to form HCl. Please see the link.
aluminum chloride
Friedel–Crafts reaction
Acylation is a reaction in which an acyl group becomes attached to some structural unit in a molecule. Examples include the Friefel-Crafts acylation adn the conversio of amines to amides.
Lewis acids help in the generation of electrophiles in Friedel Crafts reactions.
C. M. Jephcott has written: 'Friedel and Crafts' reaction in the pyridine series'
To ensure there's enough of it to allow the reaction to go to completion.
Chandru K. Thadani has written: 'Friedel-Crafts acylations of polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons'
Jacob Meyer Zeavin has written: 'Preparation of some monoderivatives of benzoic anhydride and their reaction with Friedel-Crafts' synthesis'