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Michael Ahler

What is the effect of chlorine towards electrophilic substitution?

Dave Macmurchie  Follow

Chlorine is an EWG but behaves like EDG in electrophilic aromatic substitution reactions because Cl exhibits positive mesomeric effect.

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Bertrand Wengher  Follow

Nice Question!

A substitution reaction, single displacement reaction or single replacement reaction is a reaction where a lone element switches places with an element in a compound. For example:

CH3Cl+ OH-===== CH3OH- + CL-

In the equation above, the hydroxide ion is switching places with the chlorine.

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And Esco  Follow

It really doesn’t. Most simple electrophilic substitutions of benzene require a catalyst. More electron rich arenes react much more readily.

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Armando Viray  Follow

Strongly activating substituents :

Aniline , Phenol , Anisole

Moderately activating substituents :

Acetanilide

Weakly activating substituents :

Alkylbenzene , vinylbenzene , diphenyl

Weakly deactivating substituents :

Flurobenzene , Chlorobenzene , Bromobenzene , Iodo benzene.

Moderately deactivating substituents :

Benzaldehyde , Acetophenone , Methylbenzoate

Strongly deactivating substituents :

Benzenesulphonicacid , Nitrobenzene , Cyanobenzene

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Donald Hubbs  Follow

I would like to answer this with a clicked image of my hand's written answer_

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Andrei Tancau  Follow

First of diffrence between addition and substitution reaction

An addition reaction is the one in which compound changes from unsaturated to saturated means double bond or triple bond to lower bonds such as double to single or triple to doublw or sigle

Whereas a substittion is the one in which a group is substituted such as R-X to R-oh

Meanwhile in electrophilic addition the elwctrophiles are added and in electrophiloc substitution elctrophile substitute other group

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