Birnbaum-Simonini Reaction
On heating a silver salt of a fatty acid with I2 in CCl4, an ester instead of iodoalkane is formed.
2R—COOAg + I2 → R—CO—OR + CO2 + AgI
Mechanism of Birnbaum-Simonini Reaction

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