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CONSIDERABLE historical interest is attached to the action of heat on the salts of organic acids, and, in particular, to the formation of aldehydes by the pyrolysis of a mixture of the appropriate calcium or barium salt with the corresponding formate1. In the course of a wider investigation, a study of the mechanism of such reactions has been undertaken using the isotopic tracer technique, and this preliminary note reports on the formation of acetaldehyde from acetate–formate mixtures.
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BELL, J., REED, R. Pyrolysis of Salts of Organic Acids. Nature 165, 402–403 (1950). https://doi.org/10.1038/165402a0
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