Bromobenzene → Biphenyl

HRID 2397607Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 2397607 reaction equation
C(OS([C:17]1[CH:22]=[CH:21][CH:20]=[CH:19][CH:18]=1)(=O)=O)CCCCCCCCCCC.[Na].Br[C:25]1[CH:30]=[CH:29][CH:28]=[CH:27][CH:26]=1>C1C=CC=CC=1>[C:25]1([C:17]2[CH:18]=[CH:19][CH:20]=[CH:21][CH:22]=2)[CH:30]=[CH:29][CH:28]=[CH:27][CH:26]=1

Participants

4

Reactant 2

HCID 7961BromobenzeneHCID 57371080Sodium dodecylbenzene sulphonate

Product 1

HCID 7095Biphenyl

Reagents, catalysts & solvents 1

HCID 241BenzeneSolvent

Procedure

The procedure of Example 15 is repeated except that the 4 parts of sodium diisopropyl naphthalene sulphonate are replaced by 4 parts of sodium dodecylbenzene sulphonate. Again all the bromobenzene is reduced, but mainly to benzene, so that only 0.94 parts of biphenyl are isolated.

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-4766e5d6ccc34bea91d1af30a872bbd9
Source dataset
uspto-grants-1977_05
Patent number
US04022795

Reaction notes

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