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Chemistry Level 2

What is the atomic number of the metal that is most commonly used to prepare Benzene from Acetylene in a single step?


The answer is 26.

Prakhar Bindal by Prakhar Bindal , 22, India

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Rishabh Jain
Jan 14, 2016

Red hot Iron(Z=26) tube. (Alternatively, sometimes copper tubes are also used)

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Can you provide references that iron is most commonly used?

Chew-Seong Cheong - 5 years, 4 months ago

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See This

https://books.google.co.in/books?id=HR48BAAAQBAJ&pg=SA2-PA28&lpg=SA2-PA28&dq=RED+HOT+IRON+TUBE+ACETYLENE&source=bl&ots=2Ms4VnW1S6&sig=63RwZJU-6Ct-v6CFbx0vF2YlOKo&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjtx_36yOzKAhVRBo4KHYgDCKMQ6AEIOTAF#v=onepage&q=RED%20HOT%20IRON%20TUBE%20ACETYLENE&f=false

pankaj gupta - 5 years, 4 months ago

Oh i did not know that Copper is also used . i will edit the question and write most commonly used

Prakhar Bindal - 5 years, 5 months ago
Spandan Senapati
Feb 21, 2017

Yes iron tube will do as then in case of red hot iron tube cyclic aromatisation will take place

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