[Ariaaa]

Hello everyone,

I'm doing some exam prep and I'm stuck on 3 questions; they ask me to give the full mechanisms of the following reactions:

1) Chlorobenzene and HNO3 with H2SO4 as the catalyst
2) Nitrobenzene and CH3Cl with FeCl3 as the catalyst
3) Anisole with CH3COCl with AlCl3 as the catalyst

The questions also ask me to name each reaction; am I right in saying they are all electrophilic substitution? More specifically, 1 is nitration, 2 and 3 are both halogenation?

Any help is appreciated, I've been stuck on these questions the whole day and my professor isn't answering her emails :/

[AWK]

I think that every textbook on organic chemistry contains these mechanisms.
Also search on google - you find a bunch of examples.

Electrophilic aromatic substitution is a basic mechanism for aromatic compounds.
Your answers 2 and 3 are not true.

[Alwin Kristen]

Look for Friedel-Crafts reaction. It might give you a clue.