YT2095 Posted September 7, 2006 Share Posted September 7, 2006 Looking at the geography of napthalene, it looks like 2 benzene rings with a commonality, is there a way to cleave these appart and fill in the missing bond to make 2 benzene from one napathalene or 1 benzene and say a Hexane type? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cesium Posted September 9, 2006 Share Posted September 9, 2006 I know of no method with the mechanism you suggest. However, napthalene can be oxidized to phthalic acid with KMnO4. Then, with NaOH or lime you can decarboxylate the phthalic acid to benzoic acid, and finally to benzene. Sure sounds like a pain to me...but it should be possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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