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George Fuller

A process for the production of a fluorobenzonitrile wherein a chlorobenzonitrile having a chlorine atom in an ortho- or para- position with respect to a nitrile group is heated with an alkali metal fluoride at a temperature between 200.degree. and 250.degree. C., in the presence of sulpholane.

Production of halogenated benzonitriles

A method of preparing a fluoronitrobenzene containing a fluorine atom in the para position with respect to the nitro group, comprising heating a polychloronitrobenzene or chloronitrobenzene containing a chlorine atom in the para position with respect to the nitro group with an alkali metal fluoride in the presence of sulpholane.

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Portishead, United Kingdom

George Fuller