PSEUDO ACID ESTERS IN THE MESOXALIC ESTER SYNTHESIS. 1

RS Curtiss, JA Kostalek

Index: Curtiss; Kostalek Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1911 , vol. 33, p. 962

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Abstract

In a synthesis of mesoxalic esters which was discovered by one of us and reported in the American Chemical the red oxides of nitrogen were allowed to act an malonic ester at-10'. The ethyl mesoxalate prsduced was removed by distillation and the residual oil was found to contain a high percentage of nitrogenous esters, having acid properties, and which produced with alcoholic potash a yellow salt. The analysis showed this salt to contain a ...