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The methylation of tert‐alkyl chlorides—obtained from ketones via the Grignard compounds and their chlorination—can be achived with Me2TiCl2, MeTiCl3, or even ZnMe2 and TiCl4 as catalyst under very mild conditions. equation image
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Reetz et al. (1980) studied this question.
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