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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:
Mar. 04, 1980
Filed:
Sep. 26, 1978
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Ciba-Geigy Aktiengesellschaft, Basel, CH;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B01J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
2041 / ; 2041 / ;
Abstract
The invention describes a process for the production of benzal or benzyl bromides which contain electrophilic substituents in the ortho- and/or para-position, or mixtures thereof, by the side-chain bromination of correspondingly substituted toluene, which comprises introducing elementary chlorine, under irradiation with visible light, into a two-phase system consisting of an aqueous phase and an organic phase and containing a correspondingly substituted toluene, at least one metal bromide, and a base, and also the compounds obtained by this process.