In 1906 Hantsch and Auld2 prepared mercury derivatives of various nitrophenols. In 1919 Schamberg, Kolmer and RaizissS studied the toxicity and bactericidal effect of mercurated nitrophenols and found that sodium hydroxymercury-o-nitrophenolate exhibited interesting therapeutic properties. Later, Raiziss and Proskouriakoff synthesized a number of mercury derivatives of nitrophenols, nitroresorcinols and'nitrosalicylic acids for their ...
