Preparation of fluorophenols (US Patent 4855512)

Patent number: 4855512 Granted: 1989-08-08 Filed: 1988-03-25 Inventors: George Ryback (Sittingbourne, GB2) Assignees: Shell Oil Company (Houston, TX, US)

Abstract

2- and 3-fluorophenols are prepared by dehydrating 1,2-dihydroxy-3-fluorocyclohexa-3,5-diene under basic conditions and recovering the desired product, for example by fractional distillation.

Claims

1. A process for the preparation of fluorophenols comprising dehydrating 1,2-dihydroxy-3-fluorocyclohexa-3,5-diene in the presence of a base containing HO.sup.- or RO.sup.-