Journal of the American Chemical Society

Reaction rates by distillation. I. The etherification of phenylcarbinols and the transetherification of their ethers

EF Pratt, JD Draper

Index: Pratt; Draper Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1949 , vol. 71, p. 2846,2849

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Citation Number: 40

Abstract

The results of studies directed toward the determination of the relative ease of formation of the ten possible ethers from butyl alcohol, benzyl alcohol, benzhydrol and triphenylcarbinol are reported here. These etherifications were carried out and followed by observing the rate at which the byproduct water collected when a benzene solution of equivalent amounts of two of the alcohols and a small amount of 9-toluenesulfonic acid was refluxed in an ...