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  2. Benzene - Wikipedia

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    As benzene is ubiquitous in gasoline and hydrocarbon fuels that are in use everywhere, human exposure to benzene is a global health problem. Benzene targets the liver, kidney, lung, heart and brain and can cause DNA strand breaks and chromosomal damage, hence is teratogenic and mutagenic. Benzene causes cancer in animals including humans.

  3. Alkyne trimerisation - Wikipedia

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    An alkyne trimerisation is a [2+2+2] cycloaddition reaction in which three alkyne units (C≡C) react to form a benzene ring. The reaction requires a metal catalyst. The process is of historic interest as well as being applicable to organic synthesis. [1] Being a cycloaddition reaction, it has high atom economy.

  4. Wulff–Dötz reaction - Wikipedia

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    The half-sandwich complex in the Dötz reaction can be demetallated to give corresponding aryl product, or it could be further employed for a nucleophilic addition to aromatic system strategy for synthesis of fully-substituted benzene ring. [14] The Dötz reaction has been employed in the syntheses of natural products, as illustrated below. [15 ...

  5. Friedel–Crafts reaction - Wikipedia

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    Thus, synthesis of benzaldehyde through the Friedel–Crafts pathway requires that formyl chloride be synthesized in situ. This is accomplished by the Gattermann-Koch reaction, accomplished by treating benzene with carbon monoxide and hydrogen chloride under high pressure, catalyzed by a mixture of aluminium chloride and cuprous chloride ...

  6. Bergman cyclization - Wikipedia

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    The reaction product is a derivative of benzene. Scheme 1. Bergman cyclization. The reaction proceeds by a thermal reaction or pyrolysis (above 200 °C) forming a short-lived and very reactive para-benzyne biradical species. It will react with any hydrogen donor such as 1,4-cyclohexadiene which converts to benzene.

  7. Buchner ring expansion - Wikipedia

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    The Buchner ring expansion reaction was first used in 1885 by Eduard Buchner and Theodor Curtius [1] [2] who prepared a carbene from ethyl diazoacetate for addition to benzene using both thermal and photochemical pathways in the synthesis of cycloheptatriene derivatives. The resulting product was a mixture of four isomeric carboxylic acids ...

  8. Heck reaction - Wikipedia

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    The Heck reaction (also called the Mizoroki–Heck reaction) [1] is the chemical reaction of an unsaturated halide (or triflate) with an alkene in the presence of a base and a palladium catalyst to form a substituted alkene.

  9. Catalytic reforming - Wikipedia

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    The heavy reformate is high in octane and low in benzene, hence it is an excellent blending component for the gasoline pool. Benzene is often removed with a specific operation to reduce the content of benzene in the reformate as the finished gasoline has often an upper limit of benzene content (in the UE this is 1% volume).