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Chlorobenzene can be ammonolysed to aniline. A variety of catalysts and co-catalysts are employed.

The reaction is, overall, a nucleophilic aromatic substitution, however, the high temperature indicates a radical mechanism is operating.

Industrial Organic Chemistry, 3rd. Ed. K. Weissermel, H.-J. Arpe, VCH (1997)

  +  
NH3
  +  
Al2O3
         
  +  
H2O
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Interaction, Reaction, Process defined as:
Industrial Process: Organic
Substitution: Nucleophilic Aromatic

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