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What happens when chlorine is passed
through boiling toluene in the presence of sunlight?

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Free radical substitution occurs at the methyl group giving first benzyl chloride, then benzal dichloride and finally benzotrichloride.
`underset("Toluene")(C_(6)H_(5)CH_(3))+Cl_(2) underset(-HCl)overset(383K,hv)to underset("Benzyl chloride")(C_(6)H_(5)CH_(2)Cl) underset(-HCl)overset(383,hv)to underset("Benzal dichloride")(C_(6)H_(5)CHCl_(2)) underset(-HCl)overset(383,hv)to underset("Benzotrichloride")(C_(6)H_(5)C Cl_(3))`
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