In the following series of reactions identify the major products A & B respectively.

🧠 Two Directing Effects, One Position — Find the Carbon Where Both Groups Agree Read the question carefully. We sulfonate bromobenzene, then brominate the product. Two electrophilic aromatic substitutions in a row. The trick is to think about directing effects at each step. For the first step ( on bromobenzene): the group is ortho/para directing (lone pair donates by resonance, even though it is weakly electron-withdrawing by induction). With a small electrophile like , the para position is

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