Uses of Chlorobenzene

Chlorobenzene's own reactivity (section 14.5.5) makes it a valuable synthetic building block in its own right, beyond simply being an example haloarene: (i) it is used in the manufacture of pesticides such as DDT (via condensation with chloral, section 14.6.5); (ii) it serves as a high-boiling solvent in organic synthesis, valued precisely because its strong, resonance-stabilised C-Cl bond makes it chemically inert under most ordinary reactio …