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Chemical Conversions using Sheet Silicates: Novel Intermolecular Dehydrations of Alcohols to Ethers and Polymers
Ballantine, James A.,Davies, Mary,Purnell, Howard,Rayanakorn, Mongkon,Thomas, John M.,Williams, Kevin J.
, p. 427 - 428 (1981)
Aliphatic primary alcohols, when intercalated in certain ion-exchanged montmorillonites, react preferentially via an intermolecular nucleophilic displacement of water to give high yields of di-(alk-1-yl) ethers, rather than the competitive intramolecular dehydration to alkenes; an essentially similar process yields polymeric material, poly(phenylenemethylene), from benzyl alcohol, but aliphatic secondary and tertiary alcohols, in contrast, yield alkenes almost exclusively.