THE ACTION OF SODIUM ON SOME ORGANIC HALIDES IN LIQUID AMMONIA1

PM Dean, G Berchet

Index: Dean; Berchet Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1930 , vol. 52, p. 2823,2825

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Abstract

In the course of an investigation of the action of sodium on benzyl chlorideJ2 it was observed that in liquid ammonia a good yield of dibenzyl was obtained, together with toluene and other non-nitrogenous products. The work of previous investigators, particularly I, ebeauJ3 Chabla~,~ K ra~ s,~ Picon, 6 Dains' and others, has shown that, as a rule, in this solvent the organic halogen compounds yield mixtures of amines, nitriles and unsaturated ...