Cyanuric chloride (I) is known to react with simple alcohols in a stepwise manner, so that control of the amount of the alcohol and hydrogen chloride acceptor enables predominantly the 2-alkoxy-or the 2, 4-dialkoxy-compounds to be obtained. However, when the alcohol used carries an electron-acceptor group in the B-position, the stepwise nature of the reaction is less clearly apparent, with the subsequent formation of difficultly-separable mixtures of ...