Diacylation of Water and of Hydrogen Sulfide with Acyl Chloride--Pyridine Compounds

H Adkins, QE Thompson

Index: Adkins; Thompson Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1949 , vol. 71, p. 2242

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Citation Number: 57

Abstract

Minunnil prepared benzoic anhydride in 78y0 yield through the reaction of a mixture of benzoyl chloride and pyridine with water. He formulated the reaction as: 2CeHsCOClGHsN+ HzO--+(C&&, C0) 20+ 2CsHsNHCl. Wedekind2 suggested that a radical was formed from the acyl chloride by the removal of the elements of hydrogen chloride to give pyridine hydrochloride.