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bromination

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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The process of treating a substance with bromine: especially, for the introduction of a bromine atom in place of hydrogen (in an organic compound).

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  • noun chemistry Any reaction which introduces a bromine atom into a compound.

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Examples

  • Explain. nitration of bromobenzene is much faster than bromination of nitrobenzene.?

    Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions 2010

  • Hewitt has also attacked the problem by brominating the oxyazobenzenes, and has shown that when the hydrobromic acid produced in the reaction is allowed to remain in the system, a brombenzene-azo-phenol is formed, whilst if it be removed (by the addition of sodium acetate) bromination takes place in the phenolic nucleus; consequently the presence of the mineral acid gives the azo compound a pseudo-quinonoid character, which it does not possess if the mineral acid be removed from the sphere of the reaction.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various

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cross-references (2)

Cross-references

  1. bromine water
  2. halogenation

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