Journal of the American Chemical Society

A new synthesis of ethyl trifluoroacetate

TR Norton

Index: Norton Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1950 , vol. 72, p. 3527

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Citation Number: 27

Abstract

Summary When a saturated hydrocarbon is treated with certain polyhaloalkanes in the presence of a catalytic amount of a decomposing organic peroxide, hydrogen-halogen exchange occurs and the hydrocarbon is converted to a monohaloalkane. Straight chain paraffins of at least three carbon atoms as well as branched chain and cyclic hydrocarbons may be used.