The Chlorination of Certain Long Chain Esters

HH Guest, CM Goddard Jr

Index: Guest; Goddard Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1944 , vol. 66, p. 2074

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Abstract

Koriiial aliphatic acids with more than seven carbon atoms undergo almost exclusively alpha bromination when treated according to Hell-Vollhard--Zelinsky. 2 Upon chlorination of such acids by the same procedure, we have found that a much larger amount of by-products, particularly products of disubstitution, is formed. As the acids decompose readily upon distillation, the methyl esters were investigated as possibly being more suitable starting ...