Reactions of atoms and free radicals in solution. X. The addition of polyhalomethanes to olefins

MS Kharasch, EV Jensen, WH Urry

Index: Kharasch; Jensen; Urry Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1947 , vol. 69, p. 1104

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Citation Number: 175

Abstract

In preliminary communications' we have described the addition of halogenated methanes to olefins to yield products containing one or more equivalents of the olefin to one equivalent of the halogenated methane. The present paper deals in detail with the additions of carbon tetrachloride, carbon tetrabromide, chloroform and bromoform to a number of olefins containing terminal double bonds (Table I). The mono-additions have been shown to ...