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I have a question regarding Friedel crafts alkylation. does rearrangement occur?

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if your adding a straight chain alkane, if you have more than two methyl groups rearrangement will occur
 
Yup but thats why you can do a friedel-acylation craft followed by reduction to get your straight chain on without rearrangement.
 
I believe destroyer says that if your alkane is more than 3 carbons long, than it will rearrange to form the most stable carbocation.
 
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