“…Although the first of these is conlmonly used to prepare methiodides as derivatives for characterization of amines (11), the second has recently been used with increasing frequency for synthesis of alkyl, benzyl, and substituted benzyl quarternary ammonium salts (3-5, 7, 10, 12-21). Both methods have been conducted a t room temperature (14,16,19), a t the reflux temperature of the halide (21) or solvent (4,5,7,12,(14)(15)(16)(17)(18)20), or in sealed vessels a t elevated temperatures (3,13,16,(18)(19)(20). The solvent which has been used most frequently is benzene (7,12,(16)(17)(18), but ethanol (4, 10, 13, 16), ether (3, 7,14), illethyl ethyl ketone (3,4,20), methanol (13,15), nitromethane (10, 20), acetone (19), and chloroform (22) have also been employed.…”