Oxalyl chloride
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Oxalyl chloride is an organic chemical compound with the formula Cl−C−C−Cl. This colorless, sharp-smelling liquid, the diacyl chloride of oxalic acid, is a useful reagent in organic synthesis.
Oxalyl chloride
Phosphorus pentachloride
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Phosphorus pentachloride is the chemical compound with the formula PCl5. It is one of the most important phosphorus chlorides/oxychlorides, others being PCl3 and POCl3. PCl5 finds use as a chlorinatin
Oxalyl chloride
…the French chemist Adrien Fauconnier, who treated diethyl oxalate with phosphorus pentachloride. It can also be prepared by treating oxalic acid with phosphorus pentachloride. Oxalyl chloride is produced commercially from ethylene carbonate. Photochlorination gives the perchloroethylene carbonate C2Cl4O2CO and hydrogen…
Phosphorus pentachloride ampoule