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Department of Chemistry, University of Kuwait

ABSTRACT

Methyl undecenoate and undecenyl alcohol were condensed with different alkyl- and halobenzenes using a Lewis acid. The condensation products, a mixture of aryl substituted esters or alcohols, were oxidised by chromic acid. The resulting alkyl aryl ketones were analysed by gas-liquid chromatography and were found to be a mixture of six isomers with the aryl group on carbon five to carbon ten of the paraffinic chain.