you canot make iso-butylbenzene by alkylating benzene with isobutyl
chloride in the presence of AlCl3. Why not?

Hi, simonegh-ga:

According to my father, an organic chemistry professor emeritus, the
isobutyl group donated from isobutyl chloride would rearrange into the
straight-chain secondary butyl configuration much faster than the
outlined reaction would proceed.  Therefore the yield of
isobutylbenzene in this case would be negligible.

regards, mathtalk-ga

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