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• TITLE: A New Facile Route to Chlorination of Alcohols via Lewis Acid AlCl3

  AUTHORS: Hengchang Ma, Zhikang Bao, Lianhua Bai, Wei Cao

  KEYWORDS: Alcohols; Lewis Acid; Nucleophiles; Chlorination

  JOURNAL NAME: International Journal of Organic Chemistry, Vol.2 No.1, March 15, 2012

  ABSTRACT: Halogenated aluminates AlCl3, applied as efficient chlorination reagent for hydroxyl groups of substitution alcohols is described. Primary and secondary benzylic alcohols could be transformed into corresponding aromatic halides with almost complete conversion and unique selectivity. As chlorination reagent, AlCl3 has an incomparable advantage over others, such as low material cost, commercial availability as well as convenient product isolation.