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Bromoethane, also known as ethyl bromide, is a chemical compound of the haloalkanes group. It is abbreviated by chemists as EtBr (which is also used as an abbreviation for ethidium bromide ). This volatile compound has an ether-like odor.
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.
Up to date, it has been prepared by three prevailingly ineffective methods: From salts of fluoroacetic acid using a Hunsdiecker type of reaction.; From dibromofluoromethane by reductive debromination with a Swarts reagent.
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.
1,2-Dibromoethane has wider applications in the preparation of other organic compounds including those carrying modified diazocine rings [9] and vinyl bromide that is a precursor to some fire retardants. [4] In organic synthesis, 1,2-dibromoethane is used to brominate carbanions and to activate magnesium for certain Grignard reagents.
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The Finkelstein reaction, named after the German chemist Hans Finkelstein, [1] is a type of S N 2 reaction (substitution nucleophilic bimolecular reaction) that involves the exchange of one halogen atom for another.
SN2 reaction of bromoethane with hydroxide ion. After a reaction nucleofuges may contain either a negative or a neutral charge; this is governed by the nature of the specific reaction. The word 'nucleofuge' is commonly found in older literature, but its use is less common in current literature in which the term leaving group dominates.