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THE Friedel Crafts reaction: suggests the use of AlC13 as a catalyst for the interchange of hydrogen between benzene and hydrogen chloride. We have found this expectation confirmed in the following experiments: 0.5 gm. of AlC13 was brought into contact, for three hours, in a vessel of about 100 c.c. capacity, with a mixture of ordinary benzene and hydrogen chloride containing 13.4 per cent D, the temperature in two runs being 25° and 50° respectively.
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KENNER, J., POLANYI, M. & SZEGO, P. Aluminium Chloride as a Catalyst of Hydrogen Interchange. Nature 135, 267 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135267b0
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