WURTZ REACTION


Meaning of WURTZ REACTION in English

noun

Usage: usually capitalized W

Etymology: after Charles A. Wurtz died 1884

: a synthesis of aliphatic hydrocarbons (as butane) from two molecules of an alkyl halide (as ethyl iodide) and two atoms of sodium

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