Preparation of fluorophenols (US Patent 4940821)

Patent number: 4940821 Granted: 1990-07-10 Filed: 1989-03-20 Inventors: R. Garth Pews (Midland, MI, US); James A. Gall (Midland, MI, US) Assignees: The Dow Chemical Company (Midland, MI, US)

Abstract

Fluorophenols are prepared by heating a chlorofluorobenzene with water in the presence of a copper salt at a pH of from 3.0 to 6.5.

Claims

1. A process for preparing a fluorophenol of the formula ##STR3## which comprises heating a chlorofluorobenzene of the formula ##STR4## with water at a temperature from about 225.degree. to about