00:01
Okay, so this question is tasking us with preparing diphenyl methane from benzene and an acid chloride.
00:10
So you start with benzene, so you already, they let you start with, i mean, we always start with benzene, but so that's where one of the benzene rings is coming from.
00:19
We have to add the other one, right? so i think the most obvious acid chloride to choose is the one where you're just going to add a benzene ring, the absolute minimum.
00:31
Structure that we can use to add a benzene ring.
00:35
And that's going to be called this benzoyal chloride.
00:40
So it's the benzodia acid chloride.
00:42
So that's going to undergo in the presence of aluminum trichloride, right? we need that lewis acid catalyst.
00:48
That's going to give us something that resembles our product.
00:55
That's going to give us benzophenone, is what that's called.
01:01
So we have to, we're almost there...