Lawrie Ryan and Roger Norris Solutions for Chapter: Organic Nitrogen Compounds, Exercise 5: Question

Discuss which would be more readily attacked by an electrophile: benzene or phenyl amine. Explain your answer.

Write a general equation to show the equation for the reaction of phenyl amine with the excess of an electrophile, represented as ${\mathrm{X}}^{+}$.

Explain why the reaction of phenyl amine to make the diazonium ion is carried out below ${10}^{°}\mathrm{C}$ ?

Write a balanced chemical equation to show how nitrous acid is prepared for the reaction to prepare diazonium salt.

Show the two steps that would be used to make yellow dye starting from phenyl amine ?