Journal of the American Chemical Society

The Reaction of Indene Chloride with Phenols

CM Suter, GA Lutz

Index: Suter; Lutz Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1938 , vol. 60, p. 1365,1367

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Abstract

It was observed by Claisen'that benzyl chloride reacts readily with the sodium salt of a phenol in a non-polar solvent to give the o-benzylphenol rather than the ether. More recently2 it has been shown that benzyl chloride reacts with excess phenol at temperatures above 125'to yield a mixture of 0-and p-benzylphenol together with some dibenzylated product. This procedure had been mentioned previously by Courtot3 and also in the ...