The Identification of Alkyl Halides through Conversion to Alkyl 3, 5 Dinitrobenzoates by a Reaction Between the Alkyl Halide and a metallic Salt of the Acid
To materially aid in the identification of a series of organic compounds one must develop a new system of derivatives or suggest better methods for preparing known derivatives. The problem of characterizing alkyl halides is one in which there is room for improvement, for the best derivatives of these compounds are now prepared by means of the Grignard reaction which may often fail to give satisfactory results. Moreover, there is a series of solid alkyl esters, the 3, 5 dinitrobenzoates, which serve very well for the identification of aliphatic alcohols, and which should be applied to the alkyl halides if possible. It is the purpose of this work to consider methods of preparing these esters by reaction of the halide in question with a metallic salt of 3, 5 dinotrobenzoic acid
