Hydrochloric Acid → 4-Fluorobenzenesulfonyl chloride

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The potassium salt of fluorobenzene-2,4-disulfonic acid can be obtained in accordance with the following working procedure: 93.3 ml (1 mol) of fluorobenzene were added dropwise to 200 ml of chlorosulfonic acid over one hour. When the evolution of hydrogen chloride had ceased, the reaction mixture was stirred at room temperature for 2 hours and then poured onto 300 g of ice. It was extracted with chloroform, and the organic phase was washed with 50 ml of water and saturated sodium hydrogen carbonate solution. Distillation of the organic phase in vacuo gave 175 g (90% of theory) of p-FC6H4SO2Cl (boiling point: 86 to 88° C. at 0.1 mbar; melting point: 35 to 38° C.).

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