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Why cannot aromatic primary amines be prepared by Gabriel phthalimide synthesis?

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In this reaction, potassium phthalimide gives phthalimide anion which acts as nucleophile and attacks electrophilic carbon of alkyl halide.

But due to much less reactivity of aryl halide (nucleophilic substitution reaction), 1° aromatic amines can’t be prepared.

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