The Effect of Cyclopentane and Cyclohexane Rings on the Reaction of Tertiary Alcohols and Chlorides1

GS Skinner, FP Florentine Jr

Index: Skinner; Florentine Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1954 , vol. 76, p. 3200,3201

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Abstract

H z I I1 provide a possible means of observing the relative resultanteffect of moving k€ un&maLgmup from one tertiary carbon atom to the other. In the absence of an accepted mechanism for the reaction of the tertiary alcohols with hydrochloric acid, they are compared graphically by the change in concentration of olefin and alkyl chloride with time. Unfortunately for the purpose in hand the result is not a simple displacement. The amount ...