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Benzene is chlorinated to chlorobenzene (plus some o and p dichlorobenzene byproducts) with chlorine and a Lewis acid catalyst. In the lab it is usual to use aluminium chloride, in industry iron(III) chloride is used.

A modification is oxychlorination (HCl + O2) at 240°C over a Cu(II)/Fe(III) chloride catalyst system.

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

  +  
Cl2
  +  
AlCl3
         
  +  
H+
  +  
[AlCl4]
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Benzene     Reactions Using    Reactions Forming
Chlorine     Reactions Using    Reactions Forming
Aluminium chloride     Reactions Using    Reactions Forming
Chlorobenzene     Reactions Using    Reactions Forming
Proton     Reactions Using    Reactions Forming
Tetrachloroaluminium ion     Reactions Using    Reactions Forming

Interaction, Reaction, Process defined as:
British A-Level Chemistry: A2
Industrial Process: Organic
Substitution: Electrophilic Aromatic

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