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Offline Cacoethes

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Benzoic acid to Benzoyl chloride?
« on: April 01, 2009, 07:51:24 PM »
Can I just treat the benzoic acid with SOCl2 to turn the OH into a Cl and make benzoyl chloride?  If not, how can I do this?

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