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Grade 11Differential Calculus

Methyl benzene in the presence of Br2 and sunlight gives bromo methyl benzene what type reaction
Options are free radical substitution
Free radical addition
Aromatic electrophilic substitution
Aromatic nucleophilic substitution
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8 Years agoGrade 11
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Profile image of neeti pandey
8 Years ago
I think it is free radical substitution because Br2 breaks into Br + Br in pesence of light and Br radical reacts with benzene’s H  according to mechanism and  after acid base rxn Br gets substituted to the benzylic position of benzene. Also this rxn is n bromo- succimide or photohalogenation.