The addition of sodium or potassium bisulfite to an alkylene oxide has generally been to yield the corresponding salt of a P-hydroxysulfonic acid, even though the structure of addition compounds of this type has not been rigorously established. The work of Fromm, Kapeller and Taubmann6 has introduced an element of doubt, however, since they have reported that the sodium bisulfite addition product obtained from epichlorhydrin, ClCH2CH ...
