Chlorine → 2,3-Dichloro-5-(trichloromethyl)pyridine

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Seventy-five grams of a mixture containing 24.3% 3,5-bis(trichloromethyl pyridine and 6.5% 6-chloro-3,5-bis(trichloromethyl)pyridine were chlorinated with 70 grams per hour of chlorine at 190° C. for 8 hours. Analysis is listed in Table 8. The 5,6-dichloro-3-trichloromethyl pyridine concentration went from zero to 0.5% and the 2,6-dichloro-3,5-bis(trichloromethyl)pyridine went from zero to 0.7%. The 3,5-bis(trichloromethyl)pyridine went from 24.3% to 18.1% while the 6-chloro-3,5-bis(trichloromethyl)pyridine increased from 6.5% to 14.0%. Temperatures below 190° C. give unacceptably slow reaction rates to produce 5,6-dichloro-3-trichloromethyl pyridine and 2,3,5,6-tetrachloropyriidine.

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