t-Butyl chloromethyl ether

JH Jones, DW Thomas, RM Thomas…

Index: Jones, J.H.; Thomas, D.W.; Thomas, R.M.; Wood, M.E. Synthetic Communications, 1986 , vol. 16, # 13 p. 1607 - 1610

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Abstract

Abstract A convenient preparation of t-butyl methylthiomethyl ether (2) and its conversion to t- butyl chloromethyl ether (1) are described. Methylthiomethanol (4), which was previously unknown, was isolated as a by-product from the preparation of (2): it is a stable distillable liquid.