Catalysis in Organic Chemistry. II. Mechanism of the Reactions of Ethers with Acid Chlorides, Acids and Anhydrides

HW Underwood Jr, GC Toone

Index: Underwood; Toone Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1930 , vol. 52, p. 393

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Abstract

In a previous paper'it was pointed out that a number of acid chlorides, acids and anhydrides are converted into esters by treatment with aliphatic ethers in the presence of anhydrous zinc chloride or hydrogen bromide. Zinc chloride might increase the reactivity of aliphatic ethers by loosening the alkyl groups so that a metathesis of the type RCOCl+ R 'OR'= RCOOR'+ R'C1 would occur. The possibility that aliphatic ethers may be split into two or ...