An efficient method for chlorination of alcohols using PPh3/Cl3CCONH2

A new and convenient method for the chlorination of alcohols utilizing PPh3/Cl3CCONH2 is addressed. Various alcohols could smoothly be converted into their corresponding alkyl chlorides in high yield under mild conditions with short reaction times. A mechanism is disclosed with the evidence of inversion of configuration of the analogous alkyl chloride derived from R-(−)-2-octanol.