OTC allylbenzene from moth balls

[ChemicalSolution]

Julia will not sleep until some clandestine chemist takes advantage of the wide availability of relatively pure p-dichloro benzene.

How about a Grignard in THF (THF since, when X-Cl, it takes a bit more activation energy).  Now, quench this Grignard reagent and the chemist has chlorobenzene.

The chemist now makes another Grignard reagent with chlorobenzene and adds allylchloride...  Poof... Allylbenzene..

Don't ask Julia for any references on this.. It was purely a hypothetical, uneducated mental masturbation.

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Julia

[foxy2]

Even if t works, 4-chloroamphetamines are Neurotoxic
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[PrimoPyro]

If it worked, it wouldn't produce 4-chloro derivatives.

She first takes the dichlorobenzene, PhCl2, and forms a monogrignard, ClPhMgCl, then reduces the grignard reagent with acid to form ClPhH, a.k.a. PhCl, chlorobenzene.

Then a second grignard is formed, PhMgCl, and this is reacted with allyl chloride, forming allyl-benzene + MgCl2.

I personally don't think it will work, but this is the idea as I understand it.

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[Tricky]

Julia, use Arecoline instead allyl chloride and you'll get more interesting stuff than allyl-benzene.  
Matrix... may tricks?

[ChemicalSolution]

That was EXACTLY what SWIM was talking about.. Taking one of the Cl atoms off by forming/quenching the grignard reagent... Now the chemist has chlorobenzene..

This should work in forming the Grignard reagent although more activation energy is required since this is a Cl atom and not a Br atom.

Julia

[Hansje]

I don't think chlorobenzene will form a grignard at all.
It may be possible to turn it into bromobenzene by means of a saturated solution of NaBr in acetone.
Hansje high in proteine and fibre!

[foxy2]

Photoreductive dechlorination of chlorinated benzene derivatives catalyzed by ZnS nanocrystallites.   
Chem. Commun. (Cambridge)  (1998),   (24),  2683-2684. 
Abstract
ZnS nanocrystallites effectively enhanced photoredn. of chlorinated benzene derivs. in the presence of triethylamine as a sacrificial electron donor under UV irradn. (l > 300 nm), leading to selective and stepwise dechlorination to give benzene at the final stage. 

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[Rhodium]

See the ultrasonic grignard document at my page.

[Aurelius]

Hey Hansje,  the Finkelstein swap can't be done for aromatic substituted halogens only aliphatic.

[Hansje]

Should have looked that up before posting. Sorry!
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