The Anhydrous Chlorination of Thioesters and Related Compounds1, 2

IB Douglass, CE Osborne

Index: Douglass; Osborne Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1953 , vol. 75, p. 4582

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Abstract

Experimental 4-Bromo-~-nitrostyrene.-A mixture of 1 g. of 4-bromobenzaldehyde (mp 56'), 2 ml. of nitromethane and 0.2 g. of ammonium acetate in 20 ml. of glacial acetic acid was refluxed for 2 hours. The hot dark mixture was poured into ZOO ml. of ice-cold water and allowed to stand 4 hours. The crude yellow product was collected, rinsed thoroughly with water and recrystallized from hot ethanol. Yellow small prisms, melting at 156158”, were ...