Ethers are usually described as inert compounds; the carbon-oxygen bond is firmly held, and drastic treatments, such as heating with hydriodic acid or anhydrous aluminum chloride, are generally employed to split ethers. These methods are not suitable for the preparation of solid derivatives for the identification of small amounts of ethers. Recently it was shown that ethyl 3, bdinitrobenzoate is formed by the treatment of the dinitrobenzoyl chloride with ...
