Thionyl Chloride → Cyclopentylacetyl chloride

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Cyclopentane acetic acid (17 g, 0.132mole) was stirred into 50 mls of thionyl chloride and refluxed for two hours. The mixture was cooled and the excess solvent was removed via distillation at atmospheric pressure. The residue was distilled (b.p.=38°-39° C. at 0.1 mm Hg) to give 15 g of the title compound (81% distilled yield).

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