Journal of the American Chemical Society

THE IDENTIFICATION OF ACIDS. IV. PHENACYL ESTERS.

JB Rather, EE Reid

Index: Rather; Reid Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1919 , vol. 41, p. 79

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Citation Number: 96

Abstract

In several recent papers3 p-nitrobenzyl esters of a large number of acids have been described, and it has been shown that such esters are readily formed and that many of them are useful for identification purposes; but some of the esters melted too low, some too high, and others bad undesirable properties. The presence of the nitro group leads to