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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 1979
Filed:
Oct. 31, 1977
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Ciba-Geigy AG, Basel, CH;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B07J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
2041 / ; 2041 / ;
Abstract
A process for the production of benzal bromides which contain an electrophilic substituent in the ortho- and/or para-position of the formula (Ia), or of mixtures thereof with the corresponding benzyl bromides of the formula (Ib), ##STR1## IN WHICH R represents an electrophilic substituent in the ortho- and/or para position, by treating correspondingly substituted toluenes with elementary bromine under irradiation with visible light in a two-phase system which consists of an aqueous and an organic phase, which process comprises carrying out the reaction in the presence of a base.