(i) Halogenation
(ii) Nitration
(iii) Sulphonation
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185 Haloalkanes and Haloarenes
(iv) Friedel-Crafts reaction
Although chlorine is an electron withdrawing group, yet it is ortho-,
para- directing in electrophilic aromatic substitution reactions Why Chlorine withdraws electrons through inductive effect and releases
electrons through resonance Through inductive effect, chlorine
destabilises the intermediate carbocation formed during the electrophilic
substitution