9785. Tropylium Bromide

Nomenclature

CAS number: 5376-03-4
Cycloheptatrienylium bromide; cycloheptatrienocarbonium bromide.
C7H7Br; mol wt 171.03.
C 49.16%, H 4.13%, Br 46.72%.

Description and references

Prepd by bromination of 1,3,5-cycloheptatriene in carbon tetrachloride, followed by removal of the CCl4 and heating the residue in vacuo for several days: von Doering, Knox, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 79, 352 (1957); King, Stone, Inorg. Synth. 7, 99 (1963).

Chemical structure

Properties

Yellow prisms from ethanol, mp 203°. Freely sol in water. Practically insol in ether.