It is an important raw material and intermediate used in Organic Synthesis, Pharmaceuticals, Agrochemicals.
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Applications
It is an important raw material and intermediate used in Organic Synthesis, Pharmaceuticals, Agrochemicals.
Solubility
Soluble in water (react), and toluene.
Notes
Incompatible with alcohols, bases, amines, oxidizing agents. Avoid moisture.
RUO – Research Use Only
Ken Tanaka; Tomoko Hori;Takuya Osaka; Keiichi Noguchi and Masao Hirano. Rhodium-Catalyzed Reactions of Dithiols and 1,4-Bis(bromomethyl)benzenes Leading To Enantioenriched Dithiaparacyclophanes. Org. Lett. 2007, 9 (23), 4881-4884.
Keiiti Sisido; Nobuo Kusano; Ryôzi Noyori; Yôko Nozaki; Masatosi Simosaka and Hitosi Nozaki. Polycondensation of xylylene dibromides by transition metals in water suspension. Journal of Polymer Science Part A: General Papers. 1963, 1 (6), 2101-2107.
Reductive coupling has been used in a relatively high-yielding route to [2,2]-p-cyclophanes: Chem. Lett., 13 (1989); J. Chem. Soc., Perkin 1, 2029 (1991). Used in template-directed synthesis of rigid cyclophane receptor: Synlett, 462 (1991). For use in rotaxane synthesis, see: Synlett, 8975 (1992).