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Account for the following observation:1. Tertiary amine does not undergo acylation reaction2. Aniline readily reacts with bromine to give 2,4,6- tribromo aniline 

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1. Tertiary amine do not undergo acylation reaction because they do not contain a H-atom on the N-atom.

2. This is due to the strong activating effect of the amino group, Halogenation of amines occur very fast and halogens enter at all the three (one P-and two o-positions) positions even in the absence of the catalyst.



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