Organic oxalates. II. Formation of bibenzyls by pyrolysis of benzyl oxalates

WS Trahanovsky, CC Ong…

Index: Trahanovsky,W.S. et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1968 , vol. 90, p. 2839 - 2842

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Abstract

Abstract: Several benzyl oxalates were converted to the corresponding bibenzyls in good yield by pyrolysis in the gas phase. Since oxalates are readily prepared from benzyl alcohols, pyrolysis of oxalates offers a convenient way of converting benzyl alcohols to bibenzyls. Pyrolyses of the unsymmetrical oxalates, benzyl p-chlorobenzyl oxalate and benzyl benzyl-cu, cu-d2 oxalate, indicate that the mechanism of the reaction requires ...