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Methylation with methyltitanium reagents promises to have a wide range of application, not least because of its chemoselectivity. In the tert‐alkyl chlorides studied, which additonally contained a primary‐or sec‐alkyl chloride unit or an olefinic double bond, only the tert‐C‐atom was methylated under favorable conditions.
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Reetz et al. (1980) studied this question.
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