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Bromoethane is inexpensive and would rarely be prepared in the laboratory. A laboratory synthesis includes reacting ethanol with a mixture of hydrobromic and sulfuric acids . An alternate route involves refluxing ethanol with phosphorus and bromine ; phosphorus tribromide is generated in situ .
Bromoform was discovered in 1832 by Löwig who distilled a mixture of bromal and potassium hydroxide, as analogous to preparation of chloroform from chloral. [5]Bromoform can be prepared by the haloform reaction using acetone and sodium hypobromite, by the electrolysis of potassium bromide in ethanol, or by treating chloroform with aluminium bromide.
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Bromomethane, commonly known as methyl bromide, is an organobromine compound with formula C H 3 Br.This colorless, odorless, nonflammable gas is produced both industrially and biologically.
The latter reaction is also viable laboratory synthesis. One laboratory technique for substitutive bromination treats propanol with a mixture of hydrobromic and sulfuric acids: CH 3 CH 2 CH 2 OH + HBr → CH 3 CH 2 CH 2 Br + H 2 O. Alternate synthetic routes include treating propanol with phosphorus tribromide [4] or via a Hunsdiecker reaction ...
Dibromomethane is used as a solvent, gauge fluid, and in organic synthesis (often as 1 H-NMR internal standard). [3] It conviently converts polyols (such as catechols) to their methylenedioxy derivatives, and bromomethylenates enolates. It is a much cheaper precursor to a Simmons-Smith-type reagent than diiodomethane. [5]
1,1-Dibromoethane is a clear, slightly brown, flammable chemical compound. [3] It is classified as the organobromine compound, and has the chemical formula C 2 H 4 Br 2 [4] and it is a position isomer of 1,2-dibromoethane.
Bromoiodomethane is a halomethane with the formula BrCH 2 I. It is a colorless liquid, although older samples appear yellow. The compound has been investigated as a reagent for cyclopropanation by the Simmons-Smith reaction, but diiodomethane and chloroiodomethane are preferred.