How is butyl iodide made from butyl chloride?

1 Answer
Sep 17, 2017

You might get there from simple metathesis......

Explanation:

And the solvent of choice would be acetone....

#"H"_3"CCH"_2"CH"_2"CH"_2"Cl + NaI" stackrel("acetone")rarr"H"_3"CCH"_2"CH"_2"CH"_2"I + NaCl"darr#

And sometimes when you do this you can see the sodium chloride precipitating.....