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• Back to Benzyl Chloride:
  • Summary: Acyl group member; Benzyl chloride may be used to conjugate a branched alcohol (dicarboxilic acid) to an amine (aldimine?) to produce an aryl ketone . [Reference needed]
• Key reaction: Friedel-Craft acylation (Claisen condensation)
• Safety:
  • Probable lacrimogen.
  • In heterocyclic compounds as synthetic reagent (ie: a Methylphenidate derivative) : http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1600-0536.1986.tb05272.x/abstract
  • in Aldol addition products
    • note the title of the page for topic reminder : http://research.cm.utexas.edu/nbauld/teach/ch610bnotes/ch19.htm
    • Notebook
  • a benzilic acid precursor ?

See also

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetyl_chloride : "Acetyl chloride is not expected to exist in nature, because contact with water would hydrolyze it into acetic acid and hydrogen chloride. In fact, if handled in open air it releases white "smoke" resulting from hydrolysis due to the moisture in the air. The smoke is actually small droplets of hydrochloric acid formed by hydrolysis."
• Claisen condensation...
  • in nucleophilic acyl substitutions (carboxilic acid derivatives) : http://www.chem.latech.edu/~deddy/chem252/AcidDerAlphaSub.htm