4-Bromoaniline
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4-Bromoaniline is a compound where an aniline
molecule is substituted with a bromine
atom. Commercially available, this compound may be used as a building block, e.g. in the preparation of p-bromobiphenyl
via the Gomberg-Bachmann reaction
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Aniline
Aniline, phenylamine or aminobenzene is an organic compound with the formula C6H5NH2. Consisting of a phenyl group attached to an amino group, aniline is the prototypical aromatic amine. Being a precursor to many industrial chemicals, its main use is in the manufacture of precursors to polyurethane...
molecule is substituted with a bromine
Bromine
Bromine ") is a chemical element with the symbol Br, an atomic number of 35, and an atomic mass of 79.904. It is in the halogen element group. The element was isolated independently by two chemists, Carl Jacob Löwig and Antoine Jerome Balard, in 1825–1826...
atom. Commercially available, this compound may be used as a building block, e.g. in the preparation of p-bromobiphenyl
Biphenyl
Biphenyl is an organic compound that forms colorless crystals. It has a distinctively pleasant smell. Biphenyl is an aromatic hydrocarbon with a molecular formula 2...
via the Gomberg-Bachmann reaction
Gomberg-Bachmann reaction
The Gomberg–Bachmann reaction, named for the Ukrainian-American chemist Moses Gomberg and the American chemist Werner Emmanuel Bachmann, is an aryl-aryl coupling reaction via a diazonium salt....
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