(1) One of the laboratories of the Bureau of Agricultural and Indus-trial Chemistry, Agricultural Research Administration, U. 5. Department of Agriculture. Article not copyrighted.(2) Rehberg and Duon. TaIa JOVRNU, 71, 5767 (1960). where X is the divalent acyl radical of a dibasic acid and R is the alcohol radical of the lactic ester. The dibasic acids used were phthalic, maleic, succinic, sebacic, carbonic and benzenephosphonic. Most at- ...