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The given action between bromo benzene undergoing reaction with acetyl chloride in the presence of aluminium chloride which is a weak acidic agent which helps in in removal of bromine as a leaving group and addition of acetyl group on the benzene ring. Here, the suitable solvent for carrying out this reaction should be a polar aprotic solvent because of the involvement of a lot of halogen groups of electronegativity which needs to be neutralized by the polar solvent.
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Question : Aluminium salt commonly used to stop bleeding is:
Option 1: Aluminium nitrate
Option 2: Aluminium sulphate
Option 3: Aluminium chloride
Option 4: Potash alum
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