1845 Hofmann in Mem. &Proc. Chem. Soc. II. 286Trichloraniline..C12H4Cl3N..procured..by the direct action of chlorine on aniline or the chlorinated base.
1876 Harley Royle's Mat.Med. 339The aldehyde thus formed is immediately attacked by the chlorine and converted into hydrochloric acid and trichloraldehyde or chloral.
1912 Thorpe Dict. Appl. Chem. II. 44Chloroform, Trichloromethane CHCl3..was discovered by Liebig in 1831.
1921 J. S. Chamberlain Textbk. Org. Chem. 226The tri-chlor acet-aldehyde then reacts with an alkali present yielding chloroform.
1964 N. G. Clark Mod. Org. Chem. x. 189Acetaldehyde..may be chlorinated to chloral (trichloroacetaldehyde..), an important intermediate in the manufacture of ‘D.D.T.’.
1871 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. IX. 1121Faust obtained this compound by oxidation of *trichlorophenol by nitric acid. [ sc. dichloroquinone]
1919 Jrnl. Amer. Chem. Soc. XLI. 2032Phenol sulfonic acid on treatment with chlorine forms 2,4,6-trichlorophenol, the sulfonic groups being detached. This 2,4,6-trichlorophenol is also formed by passing chlorine into phenol.
1941 Proc. Soc. Exper. Biol. &Med. XLVII. 389In the case of 2,4,6-trichlorophenol it is possible to get an estimate of the relative germicidal strength of the undissociated compound as compared with the phenolate.
1979 E. R. Freiter in Encycl. Chem. Technol. (ed. 3) V. 870If one starts with 2,4,5-trichlorophenol, the corresponding dioxin formed is the very toxic 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin.
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