Abstract
It has been shown that ethyl chloroacetate reacts with two equivalents of phenyl-, ρ-methoxyphenyl-, ρ-tolyl-, ρ-fluorophenyl-, and ρ-chlorophenylmagnesium bromides to yield the corresponding desoxybenzoins, and that it reacts with three equivalents of phenylmagnesium bromide to yield 1, 2, 2-triphenylethanol, while the other four Grignard reagents afford the corresponding 1, 1, 2-triarylethanols or-ethylenes. It has also been shown that neither isobutyraldehyde nor methy lethyl ketone is formed in the reaction of ethyl chloroacetate with two equivalents of methylmagnesium iodide.
