The preparations of a-methoxyaliphatic acids, which we report here, have not been reported previously by any other method. A number of earlier articles have reported the con- densation of chloroform (or bromoform) with aryl aldehydes to produce either aryl trihalomethyl-substituted methanols' or the products of the reaction of such alcohols2 with base and/or solvent. In the latter cases, a-substituted arylacetic acids are often produced, ...
