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ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS Strong Organic Acids as Efficient Catalysts for the Chloromethylation of m-Xylene. The Synthesis of 1,3-bis(Chloromethyl)-4,6-dimethylbenzene. Tohru Kishida, Noboru Ieda, Takayoshi Yamauchi, Kenichi Komura, and Yoshihiro Sugi* Vol. 48, No. 4, pages 1831-1839. Page 1836. The legends that appear along the bottom of the published Figure 5 did not print properly. The correct figure should appear as shown below.

Figure 5. Tuning of reaction conditions for the chloromethylation of m-xylene. Reaction conditions: m-xylene, 3.0 g (28.3 mmol); organic acid, 2.8 mmol; conc. HCl, 14.7 g (141.5 mmol); trioxane, 6.3 g (70.1 mmol); temperature, 80 °C; period, 5 h.

IE900348N 10.1021/ie900348n Published on Web 05/11/2009