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<span style="color:red"><big>'''INCORRECT!'''</big></span>

;Type of reaction
This is a Friedel-Crafts acylation, which is a type of electrophilic aromatic substitution that occurs on aromatic rings that are not strongly deactivated.

;Position of attack
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The methyl group directs the attack on the ring ortho/para, so this product (from attack on the side chain) is substituted at the '''wrong''' position.  This position (called "benzylic") can be quite reactive, particularly under free radical conditions, but the Friedel-Crafts conditions favour attack on the aromatic ring itself.

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