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Multiplanar Cyclohexane Rings

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THE claim of Dr. Qudrat-i-Khuda1 to the isolation of the four stereoisomeric forms of l-carboxy-4-methyleycloZohexane-1-acetic acid required by the Sasche-Mohr hypothesis which it has not been possible to substantiate in this laboratory2 led us to search for further possible examples of this phenomenon in reactions involving the methylcyclo-hexanones. Attention was directed, therefore, to the condensation of the cyanhydrins of methylcyclo-hexanones with arylamines, by an extension of the method used by Walther and Hubner in the case of the simple cyclohexanone3

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  1. NATURE, 136, 301; August 24, 1935.

  2. NATURE, 136, 608; October 12, 1935.

  3. J. prakt. Chem., 93, 124; 1916.

  4. J. Chem. Soc., 2073; 1928.

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DESAI, R., HUNTER, R. Multiplanar Cyclohexane Rings. Nature 136, 953–954 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136953b0

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