Lead dibromide

NpCI3 NEPTUNIUM TRICHLORIDE 1234 PbBr2[g] LEAD DIBROMIDE (GAS) 1278... 

Coordination compounds such as the di-ammine of diphenyl-lead dibromide contain discrete lead-nitrogen bonds, but such complexes are very unstable , in the case of the diatyl-lead oxinates, however, the coordinate nitrogen-lead bond is quite stable. ... 

Bromine is used in the manufacture of many important organic compounds including 1,2-dibromoethane (ethylene dibromide), added to petrol to prevent lead deposition which occurs by decomposition of the anti-knock —lead tetraethyl bromomethane (methyl bromide), a fumigating agent, and several compounds used to reduce flammability of polyester plastics and epoxide resins. Silver(I) bromide is used extensively in the photographic industry... 

Much of the bromine output in the U.S. was used in the production of ethylene dibromide, a lead scavenger used in making gasoline antiknock compounds. Lead in gasoline, however, has been drastically reduced, due to environmental considerations. This will greatly affect future production of bromine. 

Addition. Addition reactions of ethylene have considerable importance and lead to the production of ethylene dichloride, ethylene dibromide, and ethyl chloride by halogenation—hydrohalogenation ethylbenzene, ethyltoluene, and aluminum alkyls by alkylation a-olefms by oligomerization ethanol by hydration and propionaldehyde by hydroformylation. 

The mechanism of poisoning automobile exhaust catalysts has been identified (71). Upon combustion in the cylinder tetraethyllead (TEL) produces lead oxide which would accumulate in the combustion chamber except that ethylene dibromide [106-93-4] or other similar haUde compounds were added to the gasoline along with TEL to form volatile lead haUde compounds. Thus lead deposits in the cylinder and on the spark plugs are minimized. Volatile lead hahdes (bromides or chlorides) would then exit the combustion chamber, and such volatile compounds would diffuse to catalyst surfaces by the same mechanisms as do carbon monoxide compounds. When adsorbed on the precious metal catalyst site, lead haUde renders the catalytic site inactive. 

When the bromination of the unsubstituted P-methy 1-styrenes (ref. 19) is carried out in methylene chloride, the two diastereoisomeric dibromides are obtained in ratios of 72 threo/28 erythro and 20 threo/80 erythro for the cis and trans isomers, respectively. This result agrees fairly well with a partially bridged intermediate, since the corresponding benzylic carbocation leads to a 65 erythro/35 threo ratio (ref. 20). When the same reactions are carried out in methanol, the... 

If return occurs during the bromination of cw-stilbenes and rotation around the C-C bond is faster than collapse of the intermediates to dibromides, this process will lead to fra j-stilbene (Scheme 9). We used this test to check the possibility of return in the bromination of unsubstimted, 4-methyl, 4-trifluoromethyl-, and 4,4 -bis(trifluoromethyl)-stilbenes in DCE (ref. 24). All these olefins gave clean third-order rate constants spanning 7 powers of 10. For each cis-trans couple the cis olefin was brominated 3.5 to 5.5 times faster than the trans isomer. Reactions for products analysis were performed at initial molar ratios of Br2 to olefin of 1 to 2, so that products arose only from the cis olefin, the trans isomer being accumulated in the reaction medium. 

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