Hexabromobenzene (HBB) is an organobromine compound with the formula . It features a central benzene ring with six bromine substituents. Hexabromobenzene is a white powder that is not soluble in water but is soluble in ethanol, ether, and benzene. Its bromine content by weight is above 86%.
Hexabromobenzene (HBB) is an organobromine compound with the formula . It features a central benzene ring with six bromine substituents. Hexabromobenzene is a white powder that is not soluble in water but is soluble in ethanol, ether, and benzene. Its bromine content by weight is above 86%.
== Preparation == It can be prepared by the reaction of 1,4-dibromobenzene with bromine in oleum, with a catalytic amount of iron and iodine. == Uses == Hexabromobenzene has seen use in high voltage capacitors as a flame retardant.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).