During the study of certain reactions of carbon tetrabromide and aniline in xylene solution, it was observed that the xylene was brominated. Accordingly, an investigation was started with the point of view of dctermining the possible use of carbon tetrabromide as a brominating agent. In the case of the majority of compounds studied, bromination with this reagent took place, and when this occurred bromoform was always a byproduct. Most of the bromo ...
