White powder. Insoluble in water; soluble in hot
benzene, toluene, xylene.
Stabilizer in chlorinated transformer oils, mothproofing
agent, scavenger in dielectric fluids, intermediate.
Tetraphenyltin is used as stabilizer, catalyze, adhesion agent, it is used to produce other chemicals like, it can react with 3-chloro-2,5-diisobutyl-pyrazine to get 3,6-diisobutyl-2-phenylpyrazine. It is used as starting materials or catalysts.
It forms yellow crystals from CHCl3, pet ether (b 77-120o), xylene or *benzene/cyclohexane, and is dried at 75o/20mm. [Gilman & Rosenberg J Am Chem Soc 74 531 1952, Beilstein 16 IV 1592.]
