Nitric Acid → o-Chloranil

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The continuous oxidation involves a system of two container vessels for the reactants, a flow reactor, a quench reactor, and a scrubber. The FIGURE shows a laboratory arrangement as used for the Example below. Flask 1 is the storage for the tetrachlorocatechol slurry; flask 2 is the storage for concentrated nitric acid. Both flasks are cooled to between 0° C. and 5° C., e.g., by an icebath. Each flask is connected individually to the flow reactor 3 with pumps moving the reactants along at the desired rates. In reactor 3 (at between -2° and 6° C., with +2° to 5° C. preferred) the actual oxidation takes place giving o-chloranil.

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