Endrin

Product name: Endrin

CAS no, 72-20-8

Molecular formula C12H8Cl6O

Molecular weight 380.91

Product description: Endrin is an organochloride that was primarily used as an insecticide. It is a colourless odorless solid, although commercial samples are often off-white. It is also a rodenticide. This compound became infamous as persistent organic pollutant and for this reason is banned in many countries. Endrin is produced via a multistep route from hexachlorocyclopentadiene. Diels-Alder addition of acetylene gives an isomer of hexachloronorbornadiene. This compound undergoes a second Diels-Alder addition, this time with cyclopentadiene. The resulting polycyclic derivative is epoxidized to give endrin. Endrin is a stereoisomer of dieldrin.