Hydrogen Peroxide → 2,6-Dichloronitrosobenzene

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To a solution of 2,6-dichloroaniline (42.3 g, 0.26 mole) in glacial acetic acid (520 ml) in a 1 litre conical flask at room temperature, was added 100 vol hydrogen peroxide (157 ml, 1.38 mole). The flask was plugged with absorbant cotton, and set aside on a thermostatically controlled water bath at a temperature of 25°-30° C. for 70 hours. The flask was then cooled to 5° C., and the crystalline solid collected on a sintered glass funnel, washed with ethanol-pet. ether (40°-60°) (200 ml, 1:1, v/v), and dried in an oven at 90° C. The buff leaflets weighed 40.25 g (87.6%) m.p. 171°-172° C.

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