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6. On the Action of Hydriodic Acid on Mandelic Acid

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

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The relation of mandelic acid to benzoic aldehyd is so precisely the same as that of lactic acid to acetic aldehyd, that whatever constitution we assume for the latter acid, a similar one must be ascribed to the former.

The researches of Kolbe and Lautemann, and of Wislicenus, prove that lactic acid is oxypropionic acid. Mandelic acid must therefore be oxytoluic acid, and, indeed, it has been so formulated by Kolbe in his work on Organic Chemistry.

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Proceedings 1864-65
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1866

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page 412 note * Ann. Ch. Pharm. cxiii. 56.

page 412 note † The irregularity in the fusing point is not surprising, considering that benzoic acid is probably the first term in the series, and that a similar irregularity is observed in the case of the lower terms of the series of fatty acids.