Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution: Introduction
A key reaction of aromatic compounds is electrophilic aromatic substitution, where a C-H bond is broken and a new C-E bond (E being an electrophilic
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Activating and Deactivating Groups In Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution
Quick summary on what we’ll talk about today, on activating and deactivating groups in electrophilic aromatic substitution: There’s a lot to this post, so here’s
Read moreElectrophilic Aromatic Substitution – The Mechanism
Last post in this series on reactions of aromatic groups we introduced activating and deactivating groups in Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution (EAS). We learned that electron-donating
Read moreOrtho-, Para- and Meta- Directors in Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution
Two Important Reaction Patterns: Ortho- , Para- and Meta- Directors It’s one thing to learn about electrophilic aromatic substitution reactions of benzene itself. But once
Read moreUnderstanding Ortho, Para, and Meta Directors
In the previous post we introduced ortho- ,para- and meta- directors in electrophilic aromatic substitution. Previous to that we covered the mechanism of electrophilic aromatic substitution,
Read moreWhy are halogens ortho- para- directors?
The previous post in this series tried to show that the key to understanding why a substituent is an ortho-, para- director or meta– director lies in understanding how it
Read moreDisubstituted Benzenes: The Strongest Electron-Donor “Wins”
Having gone through the mechanism of electrophilic aromatic substitution, explored activating and deactivating substituents, and seen the importance of directing groups, let’s now take the opportunity to
Read moreElectrophilic Aromatic Substitutions (2) – Nitration and Sulfonation
In this article, we’ll cover the nitration and sulfonation of benzene: In the previous post on halogenation via electrophilic aromatic substitution, we saw that this
Read moreAromatic Synthesis (2) – Polarity Reversal
In planning the synthesis of simple aromatic compounds, it’s vital to know some tricks for changing ortho-, para- directors into meta- directors, and vice versa! Here we go
Read moreIntroduction To Aromaticity
In this post we introduce “aromaticity”, a term for describing a collection of three [note] main properties that distinguish benzene from (hypothetical) cyclohexatriene. Extremely large
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