Sunday, May 18, 2008
Student Union Building, Upper (Queensborough Community College)
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Reactions of Hexachloroacetone with Aromatic Diamines: Syntheses of N,N'-Phenylenebis(trichloroacetamide)

Emily Hughes, Queensborough Community College, Bayside, NY and Jun H. Shin, Queensborough Community College, Bayside, NY.

N,N'-phenylenebis(trichloroacetamide) was obtained by the reaction of hexachloroacetone (HCA) and phenylenediamines (meta and para) after refluxing overnight in chloroform. The products were characterized by FT-NMR and FT-IR. Also the intermediate, N-p-aminophenyltrichloroacetamide, was isolated in benzene and spectroscopically characterized.