Octachloroazulene

…, J Chang, J Jorgensen, DM Lemal

Index: Lou, Yan; Chang, Joanne; Jorgensen, Jeffrey; Lemal, David M. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2002 , vol. 124, # 51 p. 15302 - 15307

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Citation Number: 36

Abstract

The title compound, the first perhaloazulene, has been synthesized from hexachlorobutadiene and cyclopentadiene. Further chlorination of 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7- hexachloroazulene results in addition, not substitution, under electrophilic as well as free radical conditions. Radical chlorination of the hexachloroazulene affords in good yield a single decachlorotetrahydroazulene. Treatment of this Cl10 compound with one equiv of a ...