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Michael Muirhead

How would you prepare diazonium salt?

Daniel Chetcuti  Follow

Diazonium salt can be prepared by treating an aromatic amine (for example, phenylamine) with the mixture sodium nitrite and dilute hydrochloric acid at a temperature below 4°C. The following equation shows the conversion of phenylamine to benzenediazonium chloride.

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Chris James  Follow

Treat diazonium salt with H3PO2 mixed in cold water.

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Dare Robertson  Follow

When anisole reacts with strong acid like HCl, it undergo hydrolysis to form phenol and methyl chloride.

When p-methoxy aniline is reacted with NaNO2 and HCl, ether will dissociate to phenol so it's difficult to form anisole diazonium salt.

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Colin John Cook  Follow

Fluorobenzene can be prepared from benzene diazonium chloride by Balz-Shiemann reaction.

In this reaction aniline is to be treated with nitrous acid to form benzene diazonium chloride,which is further reacted with HBF₄ to form benzene diazonium fluorobarate.This is when heated,undergoes decomposition to give fluorobenzene.

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Chun Xu  Follow

NO DIAZONIUM SALTS CAN BE PREPARED FROM ONLY 1 DEGREE AMINES ( MUST REFER FORMATION OF DIAZONIUM SALTS )

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Chux777  Follow

Add water. Stir well. The grit remains undissolved. Filter. Collect grit. Evaporate the filtrate. You get salt.

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Chris Johnston  Follow

The following steps are involved in the preparation of fluorobenzene :

• C6H5N2+Cl- on treatment with HBF4 gives C6H5N2+BF4– and HCl.

•C6H5N2+BF4- on heating gives C6H5F( Fluorobenzene), BF3 and N2.

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Omme Salma   Follow

Diazonium salt on acid hydrolysis forms phenol.

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Amal Fatima  Follow

Depends on what you mean by reversed but assuming you mean the reaction of the diazonium salt under some set of conditions to give product, generally no. In principle, all reactions are reversible but in practice, this may be difficult to achieve. In cases where the diazo group is lost (with the formation of nitrogen gas) (e.g., the Sandmeyer reaction) - no way to reverse it. However, azo compounds, formed from diazonium ions still have the nitrogens present and, in principle, could revert.

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Bryan P.  Follow

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