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Cook, Trevor Morgan (1965) Certain properties of alkene and alkyne alcohols. Doctoral thesis, Northern Polytechnic.
The importance of a knowledge of the basic strength of oxygen in organic compounds has been recognised in recent years. Assessment of the basic function of oxygen has been achieved, in particular, by the determination of the solubility of hydrogen chloride in saturated alcohols, phenols, ethers, carboxylic acids, esters and esters of inorganic acids. Particular application has been found in the accurate description of reaction mechanisms in the organic chemistry of inorganic non-metal halides, including those of phosphorus, silicon and boron.
This thesis presents an extension of this work by the measurement of the solubility of hydrogen chloride in a range of alkene and alkyne alcohols and their esters at various temperatures using a modified technique. It also presents a study of the interactions of certain of these alcohols with phosphorous trihalides under precisely controlled experimental conditions.
It has been shown that terminal unsaturation in the carbon chain close to the oxygen atom gives rise to a considerable reduction in the solubility of hydrogen chloride and this is attributed to a decrease of electron density on oxygen.
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