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Aluminium chloride, a Lewis acid with a strong affinity for chloride ion, reacts with acid chlorides to form the ionic acylium ion tetrachloroaluminate salt, a strongly electrophilic reagent.

Well known generic reaction.
RCOCl
  +  
AlCl3
         
[RCO]+
  +  
[AlCl4]–
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Acid chloride (generic)     Reactions Using    Reactions Forming
Aluminium chloride     Reactions Using    Reactions Forming
Acyl cation (generic)     Reactions Using    Reactions Forming
Tetrachloroaluminium ion     Reactions Using    Reactions Forming

Interaction, Reaction, Process defined as:
Substitution: Electrophilic Second Order

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