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Biphenyl (also known as diphenyl, phenylbenzene, 1,1′-biphenyl, lemonene [4] or BP) is an organic compound that forms colorless crystals. Particularly in older literature, compounds containing the functional group consisting of biphenyl less one hydrogen (the site at which it is attached) may use the prefixes xenyl or diphenylyl .
4-Cyano-4'-pentylbiphenyl is a commonly used nematic liquid crystal with the chemical formula C 18 H 19 N. It frequently goes by the common name 5CB. 5CB was first synthesized by George William Gray , Ken Harrison, and J.A. Nash at the University of Hull in 1972 and at the time it was the first member of the cyanobiphenyls.
The industrial synthesis of 4,4′-biphenol was developed by Allan Hay in the 1960s. [2] [3] As the direct oxidative coupling of phenol gives a mixture of isomers, [4] [5] 4,4′-biphenol is instead prepared from 2,6-di-tert-butylphenol, where para-coupling is the only possibility. [3]
4,4'-Dihydroxybiphenyl: ... Dihydroxybiphenyls are synthesized through various organic reactions and are used in the preparation of polyether liquid crystals. [1]
The acidity of the methylene group in diphenylmethane is due to the weakness of the (C 6 H 5) 2 CH–H bond, which has a bond dissociation energy of 82 kcal mol −1 (340 kJ mol −1). [5] This is well below the published bond dissociation energies for comparable C–H bonds in propane , where BDE((CH 3 ) 2 CH–H)=98.6 kcal mol −1 , and ...
4-Bromoaniline is a compound where an aniline molecule is substituted with a bromine atom on the para position. Commercially available, this compound may be used as a building block, e.g. in the preparation of monobrominated biphenyl via the Gomberg-Bachmann reaction .
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Biphenylene is a polycyclic hydrocarbon, composed of two benzene rings joined by two bridging bonds (as opposed to a normal ring fusion), thus forming a 6-4-6 arene system. The resulting planar structure [4] was one of the first π-electronic hydrocarbon systems discovered to show evidence of antiaromaticity.