Wallach'in a series of experiments on the alkaline fusion of alicyclic compounds heated cyclohexanone with potassium hydroxide and, among other products, was able to isolate an acid, CIZ-HZ0O2, of unknown structure. Recently Cairns, Joyce and Schreiber2 have described the preparation of a C12H200z acid by alkaline fusion of cyclohexanone. The carbon skeleton was proven by hydrogenation to cyclohexanecaproic acid but the double ...
