Deethylation of Aryl Ethyl Ethers by Boron Tribromide
- 1 January 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Synthetic Communications
- Vol. 9 (5) , 407-410
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00397917908064169
Abstract
Boron tribromide is well known as an effective reagent for cleaving methyl aryl ethers.1,2 This procedure suffers from the unpredictable variability in the yield of the phenolic products arising from this cleavage.lb While not reported as a preparative procedure, Egly et al.3 note that boron tribromide cleaves linear alkyl (up to chain length C10) aryl ethers to yield, among a mixture of products, phenols, albeit in low yield.Keywords
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- Demethylation of aryl methyl ethers by boron tribromideTetrahedron, 1968