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PATENT ASSIGNEE'S COUNTRY USA
UPDATE 08.00
PATENT ASSIGNEE Albemarle
PATENT CLAIMS Process for the direct prepn of a (1-haloalkyl)benzoic acid ester from alkylbenzoic acid ester in which the alkyl group is a primary or sec alkyl group & wherein the ester group (i) is devoid of non-aromatic unsaturation & (ii) if an aromatic group, is devoid of ring substitution that would undergo benzylic halogenation, said process comprising
- Slowly feeding halogen continuously to an agitated soln of
said alkylbenzoic acid ester in a liquid halogen-contg sol
vent maintained at thermal halogenation T such that when
the alkyl is primary alkyl, the total amount of halogen fed <
0.8 mole of halogen/mole of alkylbenzoic acid ester
PATENT PHOTOCOPY Available on request

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