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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2001
Filed:
Jan. 11, 1996
Alan Raymond Jackson, Liverpool, GB;
Sean James Doyle, Huddersfield, GB;
Keith Moorhouse, Huddersfield, GB;
Thomas Gray, Wakefield, GB;
Zeneca Limited, London, GB;
Abstract
There is provided a process for the preparation of 1,1,1-trichlorotrifluororethane in which 1,1-dichloro-2,2,2-trifluoroethane is subjected to chlorination by bringing the 1,1-dichloro-2,2,2-trifluoroethane into contact with chlorine within a reaction vessel characterised in that the process is conducted in the liquid phasein the presence of a chemical free radical initiator under a pressure of from 1 to 20 bar and at a temperature within the range 50 to 120° C., and the product is separated from the reaction mixture by fractional distillation. The product is useful in the manufacture of insecticides.