The lower a-amino-oxy-acids were isolated as hydrochlorides. The nature of the hydrochloride of amino-oxyacetic acid has previously been in doubt: Werner and Sonnenfeld 9 and later, Kitagawa and Takani, l, reported a monohydrochloride, mp 156"; Borek and Clarke l3 reported a half-hydrochloride, mp 151". The present work has shown that the monohydrochloride is the initial product of the hydrolysis of benzamidooxyacetic ...
