Discussion Allyl chloride was chosen as the alkylating agent and water as the solvent because it is known'that, at least with phenoxide ion itself, initially three products form in reasonable amounts under such conditions: allyl phenyl ether, and o-and p-allylphenol. Since those mixtures can be readily analyzed, it appeared that the effect of pressure on the competition of those three reactions, already known in the case of phenoxide itself, might ...
