Chemical Properties
yellow to light brown crystalline powder
Synthesis Reference(s)
The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 40, p. 262, 1975
DOI: 10.1021/jo00890a029
General Description
1,2-Diacetylbenzene, an aromatic hydrocarbon, is a protein-reactive γ-diketone metabolite of the neurotoxic solvent 1,2-diethylbenzene.
Purification Methods
Purify it by distilling and by recrystallising from pet ether. The bis-2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazone has m 221o (dec). [Halford & Weissmann J Org Chem 17 1646 1952, Riemschneider & Kassahn Chem Ber 92 1705 1959,[Beilstein 7 III 3501, 7 IV 2155.]
