The recent report of Creary2 on the generation of ... Jonczyk3 reported the use of 50% sodium hydroxide ... When we applied his approach to benzaldehyde ... Some representative results are given in Table 1. ... Benzene proved to be the solvent of choice because the ... Solutions of diazo compounds in benzene and toluene have ... ARYL GROUP PER CENT YIELD 50 X NaOH 25% NaOH 14% NaOH AZINE DIAZO AZINE DIAZO DIAZO METHANE METHANE ...