Inasmuch as the monoalkyl ethers of ethylene glycol and diethylene glycol, known, respectively, as the cellosolves and the carbitols, have gained considerable commercial importance, it seemed desirable to extend the number of solid derivatives of these types of compounds. Whitmore and Liebe9 found that the potassium xanthates of the monoalkyl ethers of ethylene glycol were crystalline solids having definite melting points. They ...
