Abstract
THE latest volume of this series contains details of the preparation of thirty useful substances. Among them are p-chlorobenzaldehyde, p-tolualdehyde, desyl chloride, succinic anhydride, mercury di-β-naphthyl, and diethyl zinc. The preparation of 2,4-dinitrobenzaldehyde (a reagent of value for characterising amines and substances with a reactive methylene group) is a particularly interesting process, depending upon the reaction between p-nitrosodimethylaniline and 2,4-dinitrotoluene, whereby the methyl group of the latter substance is eventually transformed into an aldehyde group, leaving p-aminodimethylaniline as a by-product.
Organic Syntheses: an Annual Publication of Satisfactory Methods for the Preparation of Organic Chemicals.
Frank C. Whitmore, Editor-in-Chief. Vol. 12. Pp. vii + 96. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1932.) 10s. 6d. net.
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R., J. Organic Syntheses: an Annual Publication of Satisfactory Methods for the Preparation of Organic Chemicals . Nature 131, 604 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131604c0
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