1,2-Diacetylbenzene

yellow to light brown crystalline powder

The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 40, p. 262, 1975 DOI: 10.1021/jo00890a029

1,2-Diacetylbenzene, an aromatic hydrocarbon, is a protein-reactive γ-diketone metabolite of the neurotoxic solvent 1,2-diethylbenzene.

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.]