XVII.—Electrolytic Synthesis of Dibasic Acids

A. Crum Brown; James Walker

doi:10.1017/S0080456800032646

XVII.—Electrolytic Synthesis of Dibasic Acids

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A. Crum Brown and

James Walker

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In our former paper we described the results obtained by electrolysing concentrated aqueous solutions of the ethyl-potassium salts of normal saturated dibasic acids. The chief products were shown to be diethyl compound ethers of the same homologous series, and the formation of these compound ethers was shown to occur in accordance with the equation: 2C2H5·O·ĊO·R˝·CO·O- = C2H5·O·CO·R˝R˝CO·O·C2H5 + 2CO2. We now find that precisely similar results are obtained by electrolysing the corresponding compounds derived from saturated dibasic acids with side chains. We have thus been able to effect the synthesis of acids of the succinic acid series, in which hydrogen is symmetrically replaced by alcohol radicals of the form CnH2n+1.

Type: Research Article
Information: Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 37 , Issue 2 , 1895 , pp. 361 - 379

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0080456800032646 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1895

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^{page 362 note *} Berichte der deutschen chemischen Gesellschaft 21, 2096 and 22, 389.

^{page 362 note †} Ibid., 22, 1821.

^{page 362 note ‡} Zeitschrift für physilkalische Chemie 5, 404.

^{page 363 note *} Berichte der deutschen chemischen Gesellschaft 22, 1821.

^{page 364 note *} Berichte der deutschen chemischen Gesellschaft 21, 3399.

^{page 364 note †} Ibid., 22, 1821.

^{page 364 note ‡} Ibid., 21, 3399.

^{page 365 note *} Berichte der deutsche chemische Gesellschaft 22, 1821.

^{page 366 note *} Berichte der deutsche chemische Gesellschaft 23, 298.

^{page 367 note *} Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie 5, 404.

^{page 370 note *} See Murray, Journal of the Chemical Society 61, 10.

^{page 371 note *} Liebig's Annalen 200, 70.

^{page 372 note *} Fittig and Howe, Liebig's Annalen 200, 23.

^{page 372 note †} Liebig's Annalen 200, 35.

^{page 377 note *} Michael, , American Chemical Journal 1, 413Google Scholar.

^{page 377 note †} Berichte der deutschen chemischen Gesellschaft 24, 127.

^{page 379 note *} Comptes rendus 113, 825.

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