Bayer Aktiengesellschaft

Winfried Rosen

Klaus Jelich

Rudolf Braden

Dieter Kaufmann

Gotz Blume

Paul-Christian Fiedler

A process for the preparation of a substituted 2-chloropyridine derivatives of the formula ##STR1## in which R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 represent hydrogen or various other radicals, which comprises reacting a pyridine-1-oxide of the formula ##STR2## with an aromatic carbonyl chloride in the presence of an inert organic solvent and in the presence of an acid acceptor at a temperature between about -20.degree. C. and 200.degree. C.

Preparation of substituted 2-chloropyridines

A new process for the preparation of 1-chloro-2-(1-chloro-cyclopropyl)-3-(2-chloro-phenyl)-propan-2-ol of the formula ##STR1## and/or 2-(1-chloro-cyclopropyl)-2-(2-chloro-benzyl)-oxirane of the formula ##STR2## comprising a) reacting in a first step, 2-chloro-benzyl chloride of the formula ##STR3## with comminuted magnesium in the presence of a mixture of toluene and tetrahydrofuran, in which the ratio of toluene to tetrahydrofuran is between 65:35 and 95:5 parts by weight, at a temperature between 0.degree. C. and 100.degree. C., the ratio of 2-chloro-benzyl chloride to tetrahydrofuran being such that between 1 and 3 moles of tetrahydrofuran are present per mol of 2-chloro-benzyl chloride, and subsequently separating off any magnesium which may still be present, and

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