Benzyl Chloride → Benzene, 1,2-bis(phenylmethyl)-

HRID 980978Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 980978 reaction equation
[C:1]1([CH2:7][C:8]2[CH:13]=[CH:12][CH:11]=[CH:10][CH:9]=2)[CH:6]=[CH:5][CH:4]=[CH:3][CH:2]=1.[CH2:14](Cl)[C:15]1[CH:20]=[CH:19][CH:18]=[CH:17][CH:16]=1>[Cl-].[Al+3].[Cl-].[Cl-]>[CH2:7]([C:8]1[CH:9]=[CH:10][CH:11]=[CH:12][C:13]=1[CH2:14][C:15]1[CH:20]=[CH:19][CH:18]=[CH:17][CH:16]=1)[C:1]1[CH:6]=[CH:5][CH:4]=[CH:3][CH:2]=1

Participants

4

Reactant 2

HCID 7503Benzyl ChlorideHCID 7580Diphenylmethane

Product 1

HCID 10934161Benzene, 1,2-bis(phenylmethyl)-Yield 106.2%

Reagents, catalysts & solvents 1

HCID 6451240Aluminum(III) ChlorideCatalyst

Procedure

To a reaction vessel were added 2500 g of diphenylmethane and 40 g of aluminum chloride and reaction was carried out for 2 hours at room temperature with further adding 600 g of benzyl chloride with stirring. After the reaction, the catalyst was deactivated and 1300 g of a dibenzylbenzene isomer mixture (Composition I) was obtained by reduced pressure distillation.

Workup

  1. additionTo a reaction vessel were added
  2. customAfter the reaction

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-6e0c39a5328a430d8f3f2db1479452b7
Source dataset
uspto-grants-1987_01
Patent number
US04639833

Reaction notes

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