The choleic acids of certain carcinogenic hydrocarbons

LF Fieser, MS Newman

Index: Fieser; Fieser Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1935 , vol. 57, p. 782

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Abstract

The remarkable ability of desoxycholic acid to form well-defined molecular compounds (choleic acids) with a wide variety of organic substances was discovered by Wieland and Sorge, who showed that this bile acid, either in the free state or in the form of glyco-or tauro- desoxycholic acid, combines with such substances as ether, alcohol, various carboxylic acids including the higher fatty acids, certain aromatic hydrocarbons, cholesterol, certain ...