In a previous report from these laboratories' it was shown that the major product isolated from the chlorination of ethylpentachlorobenzene is 1-pentachlorophenyl-2-chloroethane. It is our present purpose to show that in contrast to the chlorination, the bromination of ethylpentachlorobenzene results in a single product and that, furthermore, the product obtained is the a-substituted product, 1-pentachlorophenyl-1-bromoethane. When ...
