Alkylation of benzene with optically active 3-chloro-1-butanol, 3-chlorobutanoic acid, and their esters.

T Nakajima, S Masuda, S Nakashima, T Kondo…

Index: Nakajima,T. et al. Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, 1979 , vol. 52, p. 2377 - 2382

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Abstract

The alkylations of benzene with optically active 3-chloro-1-butanol, 3-chlorobutanoic acid and their esters in the presence of aluminium chloride gave the corresponding 3-phenyl substituted derivatives in good optical yield. All these reactions were found to proceed with inversion of configuration at the attacking carbon atom. The products were not racemized under the conditions used, while the starting materials were racemized to a considerable ...