CHLORO ACETYL CHLORIDE

Benzyl chloride is treated with potassium hydroxide or moist silver oxide to form benzyl alcohol.

Uses

The main use of chloroacetyl chloride is in the manufacturing of herbicides used in agriculture. Especially, popular herbicides such as alachlor and butachlor are manufactured using chloroacetyl chloride. However, due to the fact that such herbicides create environmental pollution, production and use of alachlor and butachlor has been banned in the EU region. Some chloroacetyl chloride is also used to produce phenacyl chloride, another chemical intermediate, also used as a tear gas.[3] Phenacyl chloride is synthesized in a Friedel-Crafts acylation of benzene, with an aluminium chloride catalyst:[6] The chief use of chloroacetyl chloride (CAC) is as an intermediate in the manufacture of chloroacetophenone and other chemicals.