Benzyl Chloride → 1,1-Diphenylethane

HRID 1651852Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 1651852 reaction equation
[CH2:1](Cl)[C:2]1[CH:7]=[CH:6][CH:5]=[CH:4][CH:3]=1>[Fe].Cl[Cu].O>[C:2]1([CH:1]([C:2]2[CH:7]=[CH:6][CH:5]=[CH:4][CH:3]=2)[CH3:1])[CH:7]=[CH:6][CH:5]=[CH:4][CH:3]=1

Participants

5

Reactant 1

HCID 7503Benzyl Chloride

Product 1

HCID 119181,1-DiphenylethaneYield 71.4%

Reagents, catalysts & solvents 3

HCID 23925IronCatalystHCID 62652Cuprous chlorideCatalystHCID 962WaterSolvent

Procedure

The procedure of Example I was repeated except that the reaction mass contained 150 ml water, 5.6 g iron (99.9+% pure), 0.2 g CuCl (99.9% pure), and 25.4 g benzyl chloride. The reaction period was for 3 hr. 13.0 g of crude diphenylethane product was obtained. This represents a 71.4% yield.

Workup

  1. customThe reaction period

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-71e142610d554d66ac361faaf2269a06
Source dataset
uspto-grants-1990_05
Patent number
US04929785

Reaction notes

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