Organic Chemistry Portal

Abstracts

Search:

Trichloroisocyanuric Acid as a Cohalogenating Reagent: An Efficient Transformation of Alkenes into Chlorohydrins, β-Chloroethers and β-Chloroacetates

Gabriela Fonseca Mendonça, Antonio Manzolillo Sanseverino, Marcio C. S. de Mattos*

*Instituto de Química, Departamento de Química Orgânica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Cx. Postal 68545, 21945-970, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Email: mmattosiq.ufrj.br

G. Fonseca Mendonça, A. Manzolillo Sanseverino, M. C. S. de Mattos, Synthesis, 2003, 45-48.

DOI: 10.1055/s-2003-36250


Abstract

The preparation of diverse β-chloroethers, β-chloroacetates, and chlorohydrins is efficiently achieved under mild conditions by reaction of alkenes with trichloroisocyanuric acid in alcohols, acetic acid or aqueous acetone, respectively.

see article for more examples



Key Words

alkenes, electrophilic additions, esters, ethers, halogenation, chlorohydrins


ID: J66-Y2003-1710