
%0 Journal Article
%A Deacon, GB 
%A Farquharson, GJ 
%T Synthesis and bromodemercuration of some permercurated arenes
%J Australian Journal of Chemistry
%D 1976/03/01
%V 29
%N 3
%P 627-635
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/CH9760627
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/CH9760627 
%X Pentabromonitrobenzene, pentabromobenzoic acid, pentabromobenzamide, pentabromoacetanilide, barium pentabromobenzenesulphonate, 1,2,4,5 - tetrabromo -3-chloro-6-(trifluoromethyl)benzene, 2,3,5,6-tetrabromo-4-methoxytoluene 2,3,5,6-tetrabromo-4-methoxybenzamide, methyl 2,3,5,6-tetra- bromo-4-methoxybenzoate, and 1,2,5-tribromo-3,4-dichloro-6-fluorobenzene have been synthesized in good yield by bromodemercuration of the corresponding fully mercurated (permercurated) arenes, e.g. C6(HgO2CCF3)5NO2, which were prepared by reaction of an excess of molten mercuric tri- fluoroacetate with suitable arenes at c. 180-245º. Permercuration of p-methoxybenzoic acid was accompanied by complete decarboxylation giving, after bromodemercuration, pentabromo(methoxy)- benzene, which was also obtained in low yield from preparations of methyl 2,3,5,6-tetrabromo-4- methoxybenzoate and 2,3,5,6-tetrabromo-4-methoxybenzamide. Conditions have been devised for conversion of phenylmercuric chloride into either a pentamercurated or a hexamercurated benzene derivative, and hence into pentabromo-or hexabromobenzene. The results establish permercuration/bromodemercuration as a simple and versatile route to polybromobenzene. 
