Friedal-Crafts Acylation and Alkylation
Learn about Friedel-Crafts alkylation and acylation reactions, their purposes, the role of resonance stabilization in the mechanism, and the key similarities and differences between these reactions.
Topics
- aluminum chloride catalyst
- resonance-stabilized acyl cation
- electrophilic acyl carbon
- nucleophile
- acetophenone
- electrophilic aromatic substitution
- resonance stabilization
- Friedel-Crafts acylation reactions
- aromatic ring
- Lewis acid
- Friedel-Crafts alkylation reactions