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Account for the following:(i) Direct nitration of aniline yields significant amount of meta derivative.(ii) Primary aromatic amines cannot be prepared by Gabriel phthalimide synthesis.

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(i) In strongly acidic medium, aniline is protonated to form the anilinium ion which is meta directing.

(ii) Aryl halides do not undergo nucleophilic substitution with the anion formed by phthalimide.



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