Date of Award:
5-1953
Document Type:
Thesis
Degree Name:
Master of Science (MS)
Department:
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Committee
Hanes O. Van Orden
Abstract
Fife and O'Shaughnessy have made a serices of di-esters by allowing the sodium salts of various fatty acids to react with ethyl monochloracetate according to the following equation:
RCO2 Na + ClCH2 CO2 C2 H5 -----------> RCO2CH2CO2 C2 H5 + NaCL
The mechanism of the reaction appears to be ionic and to involve the attack of an RCO2- ion on the carbon atom to which the chlorine atom is attached. As the RCO2- approaches this carbon atom the chlorine atom moves away and leaves as a chloride ion. This reaction appears to be similar to the Williamson synthesis of ethers:
RONa + R'X --------------> ROR' + NaX
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Recommended Citation
Perkins, Richard W., "The Reaction of Some Sodium Salts of Fatty Acids and Benzoic Acid With a-Bromobenzyl Cyanide" (1953). All Graduate Theses and Dissertations. 7171.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/7171
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