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Hexabromobenzene

98%

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Empirical Formula (Hill Notation):
C6Br6
CAS Number:
87-82-1
Molecular Weight:
551.49
Beilstein:
1912586
EC Number:
201-773-9
MDL number:
MFCD00000058
UNSPSC Code:
12352100
PubChem Substance ID:
24846754
NACRES:
NA.22

Quality Level

100

Assay

98%

form

solid

mp

>300 °C (lit.)

solubility

chloroform: soluble 10 mg/mL

functional group

bromo

SMILES string

Brc1c(Br)c(Br)c(Br)c(Br)c1Br

InChI

1S/C6Br6/c7-1-2(8)4(10)6(12)5(11)3(1)9

InChI key

CAYGQBVSOZLICD-UHFFFAOYSA-N

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General description

Hexabromobenzene is used as fire retardant in plastics, paper and electric manufactured goods. It undergoes protodebromination when treated with sodium methoxide in methanol and ethyl methyl ketone to give a mixture of tetrabromobenzenes.

Application

The porphyrinogenic potential of hexabromobenzene (HBB) with hexachlorobenzene was studied in the liver of primiparous rats.

Pictograms

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GHS07

Signal Word

Warning

Hazard Classifications

Acute Tox. 4 Dermal - Acute Tox. 4 Inhalation - Acute Tox. 4 Oral - Aquatic Chronic 4 - Eye Irrit. 2 - Skin Irrit. 2 - STOT SE 3

Target Organs

Respiratory system

Storage Class Code

11 - Combustible Solids

WGK

WGK 3

Flash Point(F)

Not applicable

Flash Point(C)

Not applicable

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Comparison of the porphyrinogenic activity of hexabromobenzene and hexachlorobenzene in primiparous Wistar rats.
C E Mendoza et al.
Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology, 21(3), 358-364 (1979-02-01)
Uptake of chloro- and bromobiphenyls, hexachloro- and hexabromobenzene by fish.
V Zitko et al.
Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology, 16(6), 665-673 (1976-12-01)
Polyhalogeno-aromatic compounds. Part VIII. Reactions of hexabromobenzene with nucleophiles.
Collins I and Suschitzky H.
J. Chem. Soc. Sect. C, 18, 2337-2341 (1969)
Qiwu Zhang et al.
Chemosphere, 48(8), 787-793 (2002-09-12)
A hexabromobenzene (HBB, C6Br6) powder was subjected to co-grinding with excess CaO powder in air using a planetary ball mill to investigate mechanochemical debromination of the HBB sample. The reaction proceeds smoothly with an increase in both grinding time and
Hexabromobenzene and its debrominated compounds in river and estuary sediments in Japan.
I Watanabe et al.
Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology, 36(5), 778-784 (1986-05-01)
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