Jh. Zaidi, A CONVENIENT PREPARATION OF N-BUTYL CHLOROMETHYL ETHER AND ITS USE INORTHO-DIRECTED METALATION OF PHENOLS, Synthetic communications, 26(12), 1996, pp. 2407-2419
A simple preparation of n-butyl chloromethyl ether is described which
can be extended to other alkyl chloromethyl ethers. n-Butoxymethyl eth
er derived from n-butyl chloromethyl ether and phenol were used to ass
ess the effectiveness of n-butoxymethyl group in ortho-metalation.