A colorless liquid, it the simplest branched-chain acyl chloride.
It is prepared by chlorination of isobutyric acid.
[2] As an ordinary acid chloride, isobutyryl chloride is the subject of many reported transformations.
Dehydrohalogenation of isobutyryl chloride with triethylamine gives 2,2,4,4-tetramethylcyclobutanedione.
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