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Usage

Uses

Used in Electronics Industry:
2,2',3,3',5,5',6,6'-Octabromodiphenyl ether is used as an additive flame retardant for electronic components and devices to enhance their fire resistance and safety. The application reason is to prevent the ignition and spread of fire in electronic equipment, thereby protecting users and reducing potential damage.
Used in Textile Industry:
In the textile industry, 2,2',3,3',5,5',6,6'-Octabromodiphenyl ether is used as a reactive flame retardant in the production of flame-retardant textiles and fabrics. The application reason is to provide fire protection to clothing, upholstery, and other textile products, reducing the risk of fire and ensuring compliance with safety regulations.
Used in Plastics and Polymers Industry:
2,2',3,3',5,5',6,6'-Octabromodiphenyl ether is utilized as a flame retardant in the plastics and polymers industry to improve the fire resistance of various plastic materials. The application reason is to enhance the safety of plastic products, such as in the construction, automotive, and furniture industries, where fire resistance is crucial.
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Upstream product

• 1163-19-5 2,2',3,3',4,4',5,5',6,6'-Decabromodiphenyl ether 

Relevant academic research and scientific papers

Rapid, photocatalytic, and deep debromination of polybrominated diphenyl ethers on Pd-TiO2: Intermediates and pathways

Titanium dioxide with surface-loaded palladium (Pd-TiO2) was able to easily remove all ten bromine atoms from decabromodiphenyl ether (BDE209) within 1 h under the irradiation of sunlight or an artificial light source. By contrast, fewer than three bromine atoms were eliminated on the pristine TiO2 even with prolonged irradiation (5 h). During the photocatalytic debromination, moreover, the formed BDE intermediates exhibited a significant difference between the Pd-TiO2 and pristine TiO 2 systems, and much less position selectivity for the debromination on Pd-TiO2 was observed than that on the pristine TiO2 surface. For another polybrominated diphenyl ether (BDE15), pristine TiO 2 was incapable of its photocatalytic reduction, whereas the loading of Pd enabled its debromination to diphenyl ether within 20 min. In addition, an evident induction period appeared in the photocatalytic debromination of BDE15 on Pd-TiO2. The experiments imply that the Pd-cocatalyzed effect changes significantly the photocatalytic reductive debromination pathways.

Synthesis of octabrominated diphenyl ethers from aminodiphenyl ethers

Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are additive brominated flame retardants (BFRs), which have become widespread pollutants in abiotic and biotic environments including man. Tetra- to hexaBDEs and decaBDE are the most common environmental PBDE contaminants. Congeners of octabromodiphenyl ethers (octaBDEs) originate from used industrial OctaBDE mixtures and from transformation products of the high-volume industrial BFR mixture "DecaBDE", which most exclusively consists of perbrominated diphenyl ether (BDE-209). The objective of the present work was to develop methods for the synthesis of authentic octaBDE congeners in order to make them available as standards for analytical, toxicological, and stability studies, as well as studies concerning physical-chemical properties. The syntheses of six octaBDEs, 2,2′,3,3′,4,4′,5,5′-octabromodiphenyl ether (BDE-194), 2,2′,3,3′,4,4′,5,6′-octabromodiphenyl ether (BDE-196), 2,2′,3,3′,4,5,5′,6-octabromodiphenyl ether (BDE-198), 2,2′,3,3′,4,5′,6,6′-octabromodiphenyl ether (BDE-201), 2,2′,3,3′,5,5′,6,6′-octabromodiphenyl ether (BDE-202), and 2,2′,3,4,4′,5,6,6′-octabromdipheny ether (BDE-204), are described, of which BDE-204 was prepared via two different pathways. Syntheses of BDE-198, BDE-201, BDE-202, and BDE-204 are based on octabromination of mono- or diaminodiphenyl ethers followed by diazotization and reduction of the amino group(s). BDE-194 and BDE-196 were prepared by bromination of 3,3′,4,4′,5,5′-hexabromodiphenyl ether (BDE-169) and 2,3,3′,4,4′,5′,6-heptabromodiphenyl ether (BDE-191), respectively, and BDE-169 and BDE-191 were prepared from 4,4′- diaminodiphenyl ether and 3,4′-diamiodiphenyl ether, respectively. The synthesized PBDE congeners are described by 1H NMR, 13C NMR, electron ionization mass spectra, and their melting points.