Question

What do you mean by Mercuration of Pyridine.Give one example?

Answer 1

Sachs and Ebkrhartinger have described the mercuration of pyridine by heating it with mercuric acetate at 175— 180°. They state that when the reaction product is poured into water, and brine added, the precipitate produced (A) is 3 : 6-dichloro-mercuripyridine, and that the precipitate (B) formed when the filtrate from A is treated with potassium iodide is 3-iodomercuripyridine.