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Give Reasons Acetylation of Aniline Reduces Its Activation Effect.

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Give reasons  Acetylation of aniline reduces its activation effect.

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 The lone pair of nitrogen will get involved in resonance with the carbonyl group. Hence it will reduce the activity of benzene ring in aniline. The resonance involved is shown below:

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