Organic Chemistry
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Author: John E. McMurry
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Chapter 16.8, Problem 20P
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Given that styrene is commercially prepared by catalytic dehydrogenation of ethylbenzene. How to prepare styrene from benzene is to be shown.
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Alkyl benzenes can be obtained by the Friedal-Crafts reaction of benzene with
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How to prepare styrene from benzene.
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