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Bromine

≥99.99% trace metals basis

Synonym(s):

Dibromine

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Empirical Formula (Hill Notation):
Br2
CAS Number:
7726-95-6
Molecular Weight:
159.81
NACRES:
NA.22
PubChem Substance ID:
24870690
UNSPSC Code:
12352101
EC Number:
231-778-1
MDL number:
MFCD00010896
Assay:
≥99.5% (by Na2S2O3, titration), ≥99.99% trace metals basis
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vapor density

7.14 (vs air)

Quality Level

100

vapor pressure

175 mmHg ( 20 °C), 671 mmHg ( 55 °C)

assay

≥99.5% (by Na2S2O3, titration), ≥99.99% trace metals basis

resistivity

7.8E18 μΩ-cm, 20°C

impurities

≤0.001% I2, ≤0.001% S compounds, <100 ppm total metallic impurities

evapn. residue

≤0.005%

bp

58.8 °C (lit.)

mp

−7.2 °C (lit.)

density

3.119 g/mL at 25 °C (lit.)

anion traces

chloride (Cl-): ≤0.05%

cation traces

Ni: ≤5 ppm, heavy metals: ≤2 ppm

SMILES string

BrBr

InChI

1S/Br2/c1-2

InChI key

GDTBXPJZTBHREO-UHFFFAOYSA-N

Application

Bromine can be used as a brominating and oxidizing agent in chemical synthesis.
It can be used:
  • To brominate alkylbenzenes at the benzylic position using photocatalytic conditions.
  • To prepare brominated aromatic compounds by electrophilic aromatic substitution reactions in the presence of Lewis acid catalysts.
  • For the bromination of carbonyl compounds at a carbonyl group via Hell-Volhard-Zelinski reaction in the presence of phosphorus trihalides.
  • To prepare isocyanates, carbamates, or amines by reacting with primary amides in the presence of base via Hofmann rearrangement.

Other Notes

Contains organic bromine compounds

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Danger

Hazard Classifications

Acute Tox. 1 Inhalation - Aquatic Acute 1 - Eye Dam. 1 - Skin Corr. 1A

Storage Class

6.1B - Non-combustible acute toxic Cat. 1 and 2 / very toxic hazardous materials

wgk

WGK 2

flash_point_f

Not applicable

flash_point_c

Not applicable

ppe

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Bromine
Goehring RR
Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis, Second Edition (2001)
Use of bromine and bromo-organic compounds in organic synthesis
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Environmental science & technology, 47(1), 518-525 (2012-12-04)
Direct evidence was first demonstrated for the oxidative degradation of decabromodiphenyl ether (BDE209) in aqueous TiO(2) dispersions under UV irradiation (λ > 340 nm). BDE209 was hardly debrominated over TiO(2) in UV-irradiated acetonitrile dispersions, but the addition of water into
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