Question

1. (2 pts.) When you do your electrophilic aromatic substitution experiment, exactly what is it about your reaction you are trying to determine?

Answer 1

experiment is trying to determine

1.ortho and para directing nature of a group.wheather otho or para product form

2 Rate of reaction in presence of activator and deactivator

for example

• Using the exact same experimental conditions we can then measure the rate of the reaction when toluene (methylbenzene, C₆H₅CH₃) is used as the substrate instead of benzene.
• The nitration of toluene is 23 times faster than it is for benzene. [Ref 1]
• Using the exact same experimental conditions, we can also use trifluoromethylbenzene (C₆H₅CF₃) as the substrate, and measure the reaction rate.
• The nitration of trifluoromethylbenzene is 40,000 times slower than it is for benzene (2.5 × 10^-5).
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