Chloromethylation of aromatic

The chloromethylation of aromatic hydrocarbons has been discussed by Fuson and McKeever.16... 

Blanc, G. Bull. Soc. Chim. Fr. 1923, 33, 313. Gustave Louis Blanc (1872—1927), bom in Paris, France, studied under Charles Friedel in Paris. He developed the chloromethylation of aromatic hydrocarbons while he was a director at the Intendance mih-taire aux Invalides. 

Many side-chain halogen compounds can be synthesized by reactions that also are applicable to alkyl halides (see Table 14-5), but there are other methods especially useful for the preparation of arylmethyl halides. The most important of these are the chloromethylation of aromatic compounds (to be discussed later in this section) and radical halogenation of alkylbenzenes. 

Chloromethylation of Aromatic Compounds Reynold C. Fuson and C. H. McKeever... 

Electrophilic Substitution Reactions of Monocyclic Thiophens. -The hazards connected with the use of chloromethyl and dichloro-methyl ether have attracted interest in alternative reagents for the chloromethylation of aromatics. A convenient reagent appears to be methoxyacetyl chloride and aluminium chloride in nitromethane... 

The Strecker reaction has been shown to be a rapid, simple, and widely applicable procedure for preparing arylmethanesulfonates (RCH2SO3K, where R is aromatic) by chloromethylation of aromatic hydrocarbons, followed by reacting with sulfite. ... 

Other Alkylations. The chloromethylation of aromatic and heteroaromatic compounds has been reviewed, in Russian/ ... 

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