Chapter 13. Amines Chapter 13 Amines , Chemistry Class 12 | Page 10

In strongly acidic medium, aniline is protonated as anilinium ion which is meta directing so it gives meta product also.
( d) Aniline does not undergo Friedel-Crafts reaction due to salt formation with aluminium chloride, the Lewis acid, which is used as a catalyst. Due to this, nitrogen of aniline acquires positive charge and hence. behave like a strong deactivating group for further chemical reaction.