Abstract The kinetics of alcoholysis of trichloroacetyl chloride with butanol in carbon tetrachloride were studied by dielcometry and IR spectroscopy. The reaction is reversible, and it involves intermediate formation of 1-butoxy-1, 2, 2, 2-tetrachloroethanol and 1, 1, 2, 2, 2-pentachloroethanol.
[Prudhomme Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Seances de l'Academie des Sciences, 1870 , vol. 70, p. 1137; Justus Liebigs Annalen der Chemie, 1870 , vol. 156, p. 342]
