Silica chloride (SiO2-Cl), a new heterogeneous reagent, for the selective and efficient conversion of benzylic alcohols to their corresponding chlorides and iodides

H Firouzabadi, N Iranpoor, B Karimi…

Index: Firouzabadi, Habib; Iranpoor, Naser; Karimi, Babak; Hazarkhani, Hassan Synthetic Communications, 2003 , vol. 33, # 21 p. 3671 - 3677

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Abstract

Abstract Structurally different benzylic alcohols were efficiently converted to their corresponding chlorides by silica chloride (SiO2-Cl) in CHCl3 at room temperature. Silica chloride is also able to convert benzylic alcohols to their iodides in the presence of NaI in a mixture of CH3CN/CHCl3 in excellent yields.