The Acyloin Condensation of 2-Thiophenealdehyde

SZ Cardon, HP Lankelma

Index: Cardon; Lankelma Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1948 , vol. 70, p. 4248

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Abstract

Simonini'has shown that silver salts of carboxylic acids react with iodine (in a molecular ratio of 2/1) to form esters and carbon dioxide. More recently2 it has been demonstrated that these silver salts and halogens (in a molecular ratio of 1/1) afford an alkyl halide and carbon dioxide. Pricea has proposed a free radical mechanism for this transformation as follows.