Hello all my wonderful supporters! Today I come to you with the Birch reduction of benzene. I hope you guys like it :)
This is a very useful reaction and it is pretty cool to carry out too.
A photo of a typical mechanism: http://www.chemgapedia.de/vsengine/media/vsc/en/ch/12/oc/radikale/birch_reduktion/birch_mechanismus_en.gif