STUDIES IN THE DIPHENIC ACID SERIES. III

HW Underwood Jr, LA Clough

Index: Underwood; Clough Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1929 , vol. 51, p. 586

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Abstract

When the dichloride, diamide, diethyl ester, dimethyl ester, monoethyl ester, monomethyl ester, mono-amide and imide of diphenic acid are heated with concentrated sulfuric acid, each compound is transformed into a member of the diphenyleneketone-4-carboxylic acid series; evidently sulfuric acid causes a rotation of the rings in the biphenyl nucleus. 2 By means of acetic anhydride diphenic acid can be transformedinto its anhydride and ...