Germanium compounds, very high pressure

These redistribution reactions are possible at atmospheric pressure under the action of MW irradiation is performed for a few minutes in the presence of the same catalysts [57]. These reactions with the less volatile germanium tetrabromide (44b) (b.p. 184 °C) have also been performed by use of the GS/MW process, without added catalyst (Tab. 7.4, entries 1 and 3) [15, 16]. In this instance, despite the use of weaker incident power, the temperature reached 420 °C, very much higher than that obtained under the action of MW irradiation of a reaction mixture containing AlBr3 (200 °C to 250 °C) (Tab. 7.4, entries 2 and 4). The presence of this catalyst considerably favors redistribution towards the dibrominated products (46b) (84% for R = nBu, 85% for R = Ph) relative to the monobrominated compounds (46a), which are the major products of the GS/MW process (78% and 43% respectively). The tri-brominated products (46c), the most difficult to prepare, have been obtained with a rather high selectivity (73 to 80%) by use of the catalytic process under the action of MW [57]. In this reaction, therefore, the GS/MW process seems less effective than the MW-assisted and AlX3-catalyzed process. 

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