friedel-crafts alkylation
Friedel-Crafts alkylation is a chemical reaction that involves the addition of an alkyl group to an aromatic compound in the presence of a Lewis acid catalyst, resulting in the formation of a new carbon-carbon bond.
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- aldehyde oxidation
- aldehydes
- aldol condensation
- aldol condensation followed by dehydration
- aldol condensation of ketones
- aldol reactions
- catalytic hydrogenation of alkyl nitriles
- conversion of alkyl halides to ketones using metal hydrides
- electrophilic aromatic substitution reactions of ketones
- friedel-crafts acylation
- friedel-crafts acylation reaction
- oxidation of secondary alcohols
- oxidative dehydrogenation of alcohols
- reduction of ketones to alcohols
- α-halogenation of ketones