ABSTRACT
The word "chlorohydrin" has attained common technical usage to denote various chemical compounds which contain both a chioro and a hydroxyl group. A major review article covers the chemistry of the compounds [1], and the word has limited appearance in recent volumes of Chemical Abstracts. It is omitted as a general term from chemical dictionaries [2]. Commonly, the term is not applied to aromatics, such as the chlorophenols, and so such compounds are not included in the following discussion.
