Chloroacetyl chloride → HCID 737111, compound

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There was added slowly at 10° C. and under nitrogen 24 ml of chloracetyl chloride to 30.5 g (0.2 mole) of 1-adamantanol and 12 g of magnesia in suspension in 400 ml of chloroform; it was then brought under reflux for some hours. It was cooled, the inorganic material was filtered off and the solvent evaporated. The crude product was crystallized in hexane. 90% of the product melting 79° C. (capillary) was obtained.

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