Complete Chlorination of Methyltrichlorosilane1

…, LH Sommer, FC Whitmore

Index: di Giorgio; Sommer; Whitmore Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1948 , vol. 70, p. 3513

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Abstract

Inasmuch as the ether was formed in prefer- ence to the nitrile, it appeared desirable to carry out the reaction in the absence of alcohol. Con- sequently a-chloroethylbenzene was heated with cuprous cyanide in the manner of the von Braun nitrile synthesis. Runs were made with and with- out potassium iodide6 and copper sulfate6 as cata- lysts. When the reaction mixture was heated in an oil-bath at 130', a vigorous reaction set in, ac- companied by the ...