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Intramolecular dehydrohalogenation during base-mediated reaction of diols with dihaloalkanes
1Division of Organic Synthesis, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune-411008, India.
The Journal of Organic Chemistry
|May 25, 2002
Abstract:
Sodium alkoxides of a variety of diols were reacted with dibromoalkanes. It was found that the products of the reaction were alkenyl ethers resulting from intramolecular dehydrohalogenation of the initially formed monobromo ethers.