Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan

Friedel-Crafts Aralkylation. II. The AlCl 3· CH 3 NO 2-catalyzed Phenethylation of Benzene and Toluene with 2-Arylethyl Chlorides in a Nitromethane Solution

M Ichii

Index: Ichii,M. Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, 1972 , vol. 45, # 9 p. 2810 - 2813

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Abstract

The rates of AlCl 3· CH 3 NO 2-catalyzed phenethylations of benzene (50° C) or toluene (25° C) with 2-arylethyl (ring-substituted phenethyl) chlorides were measured in homogeneous nitromethane solutions. The reactions are first-order in the aromatic component, first-order in the phenethyl chloride, and second-order in aluminum chloride. Substituent effects in the phenethyl chlorides give linear relationships with Hammett's σ ...