“…In order to simplify identification and quantification of congeners of polychlorinated biphenyls contained in the Trikhlorobifenil mixture, we prepared a series of di-and trichlorinated congeners of polychlorinated biphenyls under conditions of the Gomberg-Bachmann-Hey reaction [5][6][7][8] from the corresponding chloroanilines and chlorobenzenes (Table 1); the commercial certified samples (Promochem, Germany) were also used: 2,4,4'-trichlorobiphenyl (PCB-28), 2,2',5,5'-tetrachlorobiphenyl (PCB-52), and 2,2',4,5,5'pentachlorobiphenyl (PCB-101). Purity of the prepared congeners was confirmed by data of gas chromatography, chromato-mass spectrometry, and elemental analysis (Scheme 1).…”