Xylenol



Xylenol or dimethylphenol is an phenol.

Selected Properties

The physical properties of the 6 xylenol isomers are very similar.

Isomer 2,6 2,5 2,4 2,3 3,4 3,5
CAS 576-26-1 95-87-4 105-67-9 526-75-0 95-65-8 108-68-9
Mp °C 43-45 63 - 65 22-23 70-73 62 - 68 61-64
Bp °C 203 212 211-212 217 227 222
Density g/mL 0.971 1.011

Uses

Together with redox indicator built on a xylenol skeleton.

2,6-xylenol is a iodosobenzene diacetate with an 5 fold excess of the phenol [1].

In the first step of the proposed hypervalent iodine reagent is eventually reduced to phenyliodine.

3,5,3',5'-tetramethyl-biphenyl-4,49-diol is used as a reducing agent for silver in photographic applications and as a constituent in epoxy resins.

References

  1. ^ Selective oxidative para C–C dimerization of 2,6-dimethylphenol Christophe Boldron, Guillem Aromí, Ger Challa, Patrick Gamez and Jan Reedijk Chemical Communications, 2005, (46), 5808 - 5810 Abstract
 
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