Journal of the American Chemical Society

Rate Data and Isomer Distributions in the Acetylation and Benzoylation of Ethyl-, Isopropyl-and t-Butylbenzene. Partial Rate Factors for the Acylation Reaction1

HC Brown, G Marino

Index: Brown; Marino Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1959 , vol. 81, p. 5611,5612

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Citation Number: 16

Abstract

Rate constants have been determined for the reaction at 25" of benzoyl chloride-aluminum chloride in ethylene chloride solution with ethylbenzene, isopropylbenzene and t- butylbenzene, yielding the relative rates: benzene, 1.00; toluene, 117; ethylbenzene, 101; isopropylbenzene, 93; t-butylbenzene, 70. In these reactions the isomer distributions are: ethyl-. 45: m-and 93.09; p; isopropylbenzene, 3.1% 0-, 4.07, m-and 92.9% p-; t- ...