Chemistry Letters

Gobalt (II) Chloride Catalysed Acylative Cleavage of Ethers

S Ahmad, J Iqbal

Index: Ahmad, Saeed; Iqbal, Javed Chemistry Letters, 1987 , p. 953 - 956

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Abstract

CHEMISTRY LETTERS, pp. 953-956, 1987. © 1987 The Chemical Society of Japan Cbbalt(II) Chloride Catalysed Acylative Cleavage of Ethers Saeed AHMAD and Javed IQBAL Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur-208016, India In the presence of catalytic amount of cobalt (II) chloride in acetonitrile, a wide variety of ethers are cleaved with acyl chlorides ,to the corresponding esters in good to excellent yield. Masking of alcohols ...