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PRACTICE PROBLEM 15.15
Suppose you needed to synthesize m-chloroethylbenzene from benzene.
You could begin by chlorinating benzene and then follow with a Friedel–Crafts alkylation using chloroethane and
(a) Why will neither method give the desired product?
(b) There is a three-step method that will work if the steps are done in the right order. What is this method?
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