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THE ease with which hydrogen chloride can be removed from simple aliphatic chloro-compounds by the action of alcoholic caustic alkali has been recognized for many years. It is also possible to split off hydrogen chloride from these compounds by contact catalysis, or simply by pyrolysis, and there are many patents covering these processes.
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BARTON, D. Induced Dehydrochlorination of Substituted Ethanes. Nature 157, 626–627 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157626b0
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