Notes

Chemical Reactions of Aliphatic Aldehydes…

In general, chemical reactions of both aromatic aldehydes and ketones are similar to those of aliphatic aldehydes and ketones are given below:
(i) Electrophilic Substitution Reaction due to Benzene Ring
(ii) Claisen-Schmidt reaction
(iii) Perkin condensation
(iv) Benzylic acid rearrangement.