Sodium Iodide → Biphenyl

HRID 435224Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 435224 reaction equation
[I-].[Na+].Cl[C:4]1[CH:9]=[CH:8][CH:7]=[CH:6][CH:5]=1>>[C:4]1([C:4]2[CH:9]=[CH:8][CH:7]=[CH:6][CH:5]=2)[CH:9]=[CH:8][CH:7]=[CH:6][CH:5]=1

Participants

3

Reactant 2

HCID 5238Sodium IodideHCID 7964Chlorobenzene

Product 1

HCID 7095BiphenylYield 23%

Procedure

The procedure described in Example 13 was used except that the sodium iodide was omitted from the catalyst mixture, and the reaction time was 20 hours. Gas chromatograph analysis revealed that all of the chlorobenzene had been consumed to produce 77% benzene and 23% biphenyl.

Workup

  1. customhad been consumed

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-25017815fbc64c73b3e166a2872ce856
Source dataset
uspto-grants-1983_08
Patent number
US04400566

Reaction notes

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