Styrene, the simplest alkenylbenzene, is prepared commercially for use in plastics manufacture by catalytic dehydrogenation of ethylbenzene. How might you prepare styrene from benzene using reactions you've studied?
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First, we can perform a Friedel-Crafts alkylation on benzene using ethyl chloride and aluminum chloride as a catalyst to produce ethylbenzene. Show more…
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