The chapter of “Aromatic Electrophilic Substitution” from the book entitled “A Textbook of Organic Chemistry – Volume 1” covers the following topics:
The arenium ion mechanism; Orientation and reactivity; Energy profile diagrams; The ortho/para ratio; ipso attack; Orientation in other ring systems; Quantitative treatment of reactivity in substrates and electrophiles; Diazonium coupling; Vilsmeir reaction; Gattermann-Koch reaction.

