Evidence has been presented by Mayer and Oechslin'and by Rosenthal and Bauer2 that p- nitrobenzoic acid and other simple nitro compounds may exert a slight activity in infections with pathogenic cocci. As part of a chemotherapeutic study of nitro compoundsIS a number of cyclic mono-and poly-hydroxy compounds as well as mono-and di-amino compounds have been benzoylated with p-nitrobenzoyl chloride either in pyridine or in presence of ...