Date of Award

6-1949

Degree Type

Bachelors Essay

Degree Name

Bachelor of Science (BS)

Department

Chemistry

First Advisor

Clifford R. Haymaker

Second Advisor

Virgil Roach

Abstract

While engaged in the preparation of alcohol derivatives during a course in the characterization of organic compounds, the writer noticed in a chemical catalog that various chlorobenzoyl chlorides are now available commercially. Since many of the present reagents for the preparation of alcohol derivatives are deficient in at least one respect, it seemed to be a worthwhile project to prepare alkyl chlorobenzoates by the ·action of these substituted benzoyl chlorides on alcohols. A study of the physical properties of these chlorobenzoates would then be undertaken to determine the feasibility of using them as alcohol derivatives.

A search of the literature through June, 1948 disclosed that only a few alkyl chlorobenzoates have been prepared, and that no attempt has been made to use these acid chlorides as reagents for the identification of alcohols. The work of this investigation consisted in the acylation of the normal alcohols from methyl to decyl, with the exception of nonyl alcohol, with ortho and para chloro and 2:4 and 3:4 dichloro benzoyl chlorides.

Comments

A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of the College of Liberal Arts, Marquette University, in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Science, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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