An efficient (in terms of experiment and time) synthetic procedure for chloromethyl methyl ether (MOM-Cl) is described using heteropolyacids as catalysts.

Pilli Satyananda Kishore

Balasubramanian Viswanathan

Thirukkallam Kanthadai Varadarajan

acid

CHLOROMETHYL METHYL ETHER

article

carbon nuclear magnetic resonance

catalysis

catalyst

proton nuclear magnetic resonance

synthesis

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Heteropolyacid-catalyzed synthesis of chloromethyl methyl ether

Journal	Tetrahedron Letters
ISSN	00404039
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