Halogenated ketenes. III. Methylchloroketene

✍ Scribed by William T. Brady; Billy M. Holifield

• Book ID: 104211872
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1966
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 201 KB
• Volume: 7
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(00)70132-8

✦ Synopsis

There are some reports in the older literature on the preparation of ethylchloro-, methylbromo-, and ethylbromoketenes, but these ketenes reportedly polymerized very rapidly and no work on cycloaddition reactions was indicated (3,4,5). There appears to have been no further work reported on alkylhaloketenes. In connection with a definitive study of'halogenated ketenes, we became interested in the synthesis and cycloaddition reactions of this type of ketene. The present communication describes the synthesis and some chemistry of methylchloroketene.