The Formation of Ethers from Unsaturated Aliphatic Alcohols in the Presence of Boron Trifluoride Etherate

K Nagai, M Nakayama, S Hayashi

Index: Nagai,K. et al. Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, 1978 , vol. 51, p. 3273 - 3276

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Abstract

Unsaturated acyclic alcohols of carbon numbers four and five reacted with boron trifluoride etherate to give eight ethers. Of these ethers, novel acyclic di-and tri-ethers were found in the reaction products of 2-methyl-2-propen-1-ol. Boron trifluoride etherate catalyzes double- bond migration, allylic rearrangement, intermolecular dehydration, and Markownikov addition reactions in unsaturated aliphatic alcohols.