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Activating groups "speed up" electrophilic substitution of aromatics and deactivating groups "slow down" electrophilic substitution.

1. Ignoring halogens, what is different between the composition of the ortho-para directors and the meta directors?

2. What causes the deactivating groups to "slow down" the substitution? What may be used to speed up these reactions?

3. How does carbocation stabilization affect the orientation of the products in each orientation?

Activating groups Deactivating groups ortho-, para- directors -hydroxyl (OH) -alkoxy (OR) -amino (NH2, NR) -alkyl (e.g. CH3)

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