THE MECHANISM OF THE WURTZ-FITTIG REACTION1

WE Bachmann, HT Clarke

Index: Bachmann; Clarke Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1927 , vol. 49, p. 2093

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Citation Number: 43

Abstract

In a search for a convenient laboratory method for the preparation of relatively large quantities of biphenyl, one of us with 7'. F. Murray, some three years ago, investigated the action of sodium on chlorobenzene at the boiling temperature. It was found that while biphenyl was produced in about 20% of the calculated yield, it was accompanied not only by a high proportion of benzene, but the residue, on distillation with steam, yielded a ...