This organic chemistry video tutorial provides a basic introduction into the friedel crafts acylation reaction mechanism of benzene. It explains how to add a ketone functional group to a benzene ring using an acid chloride and an AlCl3 lewis acid catalyst. In addition, it explains how to reduce the ketone into an alkyl group using the clemmensen reduction reaction.

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