Iodobenzene

Chemical properties

CLEAR YELLOW LIQUID

The Uses of Iodobenzene

Iodobenzene is used to prepare biphenyl and stilbene. It reacts with magnesium to form the Grignard reagent, a phenylmagnesium iodide used in organic synthesis. It finds application as a solid chlorine source by reacting with chlorine to form a complex, iodobenzene dichloride. It serves as a substrate in Sonogashira reaction which is used to form a carbon-carbon bond between a terminal alkyne and an aryl halide.

The Uses of Iodobenzene

suzuki reaction

Synthesis Reference(s)

Tetrahedron Letters, 33, p. 3167, 1992 DOI: 10.1016/S0040-4039(00)79842-X
The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 53, p. 3548, 1988 DOI: 10.1021/jo00250a024

Purification Methods

Wash it with dilute aqueous Na2S2O3, then water. Dry it with CaCl2 or CaSO4, decolourise with charcoal and distil it under reduced pressure then store it with mercury or silver powder to stabilise it. [Beilstein 5 IV 688.]