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A new chlorination procedure, involving as reagent the system chloroperoxidase/hydrogen peroxide/potassium chloride was developed for converting barbituric acid, 1‐methylbarbituric acid and 1,3‐dimethylbarbituric acid into their 5,5‐dichloro derivatives. It could be proved that the corresponding 5‐mono‐chlorobarbituric acids are intermediates in the reaction.
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