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Side Products of Dow's process

Nuel Rosson  Follow

Before we can consider the reaction, we must consider the conversion of the reactants into the reacting species:

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Now, we may consider the reaction occurring between these two species:

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The product of this reaction is now easily converted into para-phenyl phenol by an acid workup.

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Hugo Smith  Follow
@Shadock Its intermediate not transition state; otherwise youd be right.More
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Eric Moline  Follow
I actually made a lot of technical mistakes. I hope this fixes them. My ChemDraw file got corrupted, so I had to do it all over again from scratch...More
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Fred McGalliard  Follow
@Mithoron Non-isolated intermediates are typically written in brackets. Transition states are written in brackets and include the double-dagger notation.More
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Jan Kokes  Follow
The benzyne should be write between square brakets because it is not an isolated compound.More
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