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Chlorobenzene can be ammonolysed to aniline.

The reaction is, overall, a nucleophilic aromatic substitution, however, the presence of CuCl indicates a radical mechanism is operating.

Industrial Organic Chemistry, 3rd. Ed. K. Weissermel, H.-J. Arpe, VCH (1997)

  +  
2
NH3
  +  
CuCl
         
  +  
NH4Cl
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Interaction, Reaction, Process defined as:
Industrial Process: Organic
Radical Substitution
Substitution: Nucleophilic Aromatic

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