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BY a variety of Friedel–Crafts reactions, using t-butyl chloride and acenaphthene, we have synthesized and orientated 1-, 2- and 3-t-butylacenaphthene1–3. A mechanism is now proposed to explain the t-butylation of acenaphthene and the novel migrations of the t-butyl group observed when t-butylacenaphthenes were treated with 0.15 mol. of aluminium chloride at 45°: 
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PETERS, A. Mechanisms of Reactions in the Acenaphthene Series. Migration of t-Butyl, and Disproportionate. Nature 205, 170–171 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/205170b0
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