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The Reaction Of Some Sodium Salts Of Fatty Acids And Benzoic Acid With Α-Bromobenzyl Cyanide, Richard W. Perkins
The Reaction Of Some Sodium Salts Of Fatty Acids And Benzoic Acid With Α-Bromobenzyl Cyanide, Richard W. Perkins
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Fife (4) and O'Shaughnessy (12) have made a series of di-esters by allowing the sodium salts of various fatty acids to react with ethyl monochloracetate according to the following equation:
RCO2Na ≠ ClCH2CO2C2H5 ---------> RCO2CH2CO2C2H5 ≠ 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 …