The reaction of propylene oxide with alcohols

HC Chitwood, BT Freure

Index: Chitwood; Freure Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1946 , vol. 68, p. 680

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Citation Number: 103

Abstract

The alcoliolysis of propylene oxide may take one of two courses, yielding either a primary or a secondary rnonoalkyl ether of propylene glycol. The literature contains a number of reactions of this type, but the available information is unspecific and sometimes contradictory. In a series of seven uricatalyzed alcoholyses Davidsonl believed he obtained primary ethers, although the structures were not established, whereas Cox, Nelson and ...