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Alcohols react with phosphorus pentachloride and phosphorus trichloride to form alkyl halides
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Chemical reference sources confirm that both phosphorus pentachloride and phosphorus trichloride react with alcohols to yield alkyl halides.

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to make acid anhydrides and acyl chlorides from carboxylic acids and to make alkyl chlorides from alcohols. Oxalyl chloride Phosphorus pentachloride Phosgene Thionyl chloride is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula SOCl2. It is a moderately volatile, colourless liquid with an unpleasant acrid odour. Thionyl chloride is primarily used as a chlorinating reagent, with approximately 45,000 tonnes (50,000 short tons) per year being produced during the early 1990s, but is occasionally also used as a solvent. It is toxic, reacts with water, and is SOCl2 + H2O → 2 HCl + SO2 By a similar process it also reacts with alcohols to form alkyl chlorides. If the alcohol is chiral the reaction generally proceeds via an SNi mechanism with retention of stereochemistry; however, depending on the exact conditions employed, stereo-inversion can also be achieved. Historically the use of SOCl2 with pyridine was called the Darzens halogenation, but this name is rarely used by modern chemists.
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1961 · cited by 0
tri-iodide. Phosphorus pentahalides also react with alcohols to give alkyl halides. Phosphorus pentachloride … hydrolysis of alkyl halides. If alkyl halides are boiled with aqueous alkalis, alcohols are formed. RX … follows. (7) Action of phosphorus halides. Phosphorus trihalides react with alcohols to produce the corresponding
1957 · cited by 0
INORGANIC ESTERS Alkyl Halides Hydrogen halides react with alcohols to give alkyl halides, the reaction … tet ata tte tte Penmaes i7 Alkyl halides — Halides by use of hydrogen halides — Chlorides by reac- tion … groups with halogens by use of halides of phosphorus and other halides — Halides by exchange reactions — Sulfuric
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Phosphorus pentachloride is the chemical compound with the formula PCl5. It is one of the most important phosphorus chlorides/oxychlorides, others being Phosphorus pentachloride is the chemical compound with the formula PCl5. It is one of the most important phosphorus chlorides/oxychlorides, others being PCl3 and POCl3. PCl5 finds use as a chlorinating reagent. It is a colourless, water-sensitive solid, although commercial samples can be yellowish and contaminated with hydrogen chloride. It also converts alcohols to alkyl chlorides. Thionyl chloride is more commonly used in the laboratory because the resultant sulfur dioxide is more easily separated from the organic products than is POCl3. PCl5 reacts with a tertiary amides, such as dimethylformamide (DMF), to give dimethylchloromethyleneammonium chloride, which is called the Vilsmeier reagent, [(CH3)2N=CClH]+Cl−. More typically, a related salt is generated from the reaction of DMF and POCl3. Such reagents are useful in the preparation of derivatives of benzaldehyde by formylation and for the conversion of C−OH groups into C−Cl groups. It is especially renowned for the conversion of C=O groups to CCl2 groups. For example, benzophenone and phosphorus pentachloride react to give the diphenyldichloromethane:
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