The Hydrolysis of Tertiary Aliphatic Halides. I

HM Woodburn, FC Whitmore

Index: Woodburn; Whitmore Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1934 , vol. 56, p. 1395

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Abstract

Our attention was drawn to this subject by difficulties which we experienced in attempting to prepare tertiary amyl alcohol by the hydrolysis of its chloride. We were further interested in this process by statements made by Ayres regarding the hydrolysis of amyl chlorides.'A study of the literature revealed considerable confusion on the subject. 2 In the present work experiments were conducted with tertiary butyl chloride, tertiary amyl chloride and ...