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  2. Buchner ring expansion - Wikipedia

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    The Buchner ring expansion reaction was first used in 1885 by Eduard Buchner and Theodor Curtius [1] [2] who prepared a carbene from ethyl diazoacetate for addition to benzene using both thermal and photochemical pathways in the synthesis of cycloheptatriene derivatives. The resulting product was a mixture of four isomeric carboxylic acids ...

  3. Dow process (phenol) - Wikipedia

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    When 1-[14 C]-1-chlorobenzene was subjected to aqueous NaOH at 395 °C, ipso substitution product 1-[14 C]-phenol was formed in 54% yield, while cine substitution product 2-[14 C]-phenol was formed in 43% yield, indicating that an elimination-addition (benzyne) mechanism is predominant, with perhaps a small amount of product from addition ...

  4. Nucleophilic aromatic substitution - Wikipedia

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    Aromatic nucleophilic substitution. This reaction differs from a common S N 2 reaction, because it happens at a trigonal carbon atom (sp 2 hybridization). The mechanism of S N 2 reaction does not occur due to steric hindrance of the benzene ring. In order to attack the C atom, the nucleophile must approach in line with the C-LG (leaving group ...

  5. Friedel–Crafts reaction - Wikipedia

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    In commercial applications, the alkylating agents are generally alkenes, some of the largest scale reactions practiced in industry.Such alkylations are of major industrial importance, e.g. for the production of ethylbenzene, the precursor to polystyrene, from benzene and ethylene and for the production of cumene from benzene and propene in cumene process:

  6. Free-radical addition - Wikipedia

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    In organic chemistry, free-radical addition is an addition reaction which involves free radicals.These reactions can happen due to the free radicals having an unpaired electron in their valence shell, making them highly reactive.

  7. Benzene - Wikipedia

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    Benzene is sufficiently nucleophilic that it undergoes substitution by acylium ions and alkyl carbocations to give substituted derivatives. Electrophilic aromatic substitution of benzene. The most widely practiced example of this reaction is the ethylation of benzene. Approximately 24,700,000 tons were produced in 1999. [73]

  8. Substitution reaction - Wikipedia

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    Nucleophilic substitutions can proceed by two different mechanisms, unimolecular nucleophilic substitution (S N 1) and bimolecular nucleophilic substitution (S N 2). The two reactions are named according tho their rate law, with S N 1 having a first-order rate law, and S N 2 having a second-order. [2] S N 1 reaction mechanism occurring through ...

  9. Bergman cyclization - Wikipedia

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    The reaction product is a derivative of benzene. Scheme 1. Bergman cyclization. The reaction proceeds by a thermal reaction or pyrolysis (above 200 °C) forming a short-lived and very reactive para-benzyne biradical species. It will react with any hydrogen donor such as 1,4-cyclohexadiene which converts to benzene.