Re-evaluating pyridine’s role in chlorination reaction

An imagew showing PhICl2

Source: © Jason Laurence Dutton/La Trobe University

Well-established mechanism for chlorination using dichloroiodobenzene together with pyridine proven wrong

Researchers in Australia have studied how dichloroiodobenzene (PhICl2) interacts with pyridine ligands and their findings contradict the previously proposed mechanism for the chlorination reaction with these reagents.