II. 



0;» a nexo-Qompound resulting from the Union of Benzok 

 Acid with Camphor* In a X^ft^r fr^M F^ ^B'* Gowa«, 



To Ma. NICHOLSON. 

 SIR, 



, JSlIOULD tKe following commnnJcatioa prove worthy of 



insertion in your, Journal, it will give me great satisfaction, 

 if I iind, that I can tend in the least to the advancement of 

 chemical knowledge, by the relation of a few experiments 

 f^ew oleaginous and observations on a new oleaginous compound. — The ex- 

 eompoun . periments which I particularly wish to submit to your con- 

 sideration are to illustrate the formation of this substance, 

 which 1 have recently produced from certain admixtures of 

 benzoic ^cid, camphor, alcohol, aad water ; ^nd which may 

 also be produced in a similar manner from the sulphuric 

 and niiricEethers, when substitute^ for alcohol. 

 Solution of _ By making solutions of ben.zoiQ, acid, and 'camphor in 

 campho^fornis either' of these solvents, I found, that, on the addition of a 

 an oleaginous definite quantity of water, no precipitation of the acid or 

 ihradcluion o? Camphor was. produced, but a^x oleaginous compound was 

 waYerinacer- formed. This sfiems to present an anomaly inconsistent 

 ainpropoi ion. ^.^j. ^j^j^]^^^ . inasmuch as it prpves, that water does not 

 act primarily in causing a precipitation of these bodies^ 

 either froW alcohol or aethers, a circumstance, which a pri- 

 ori would not have been expected; but causes rather the 

 formatio.n 0^ a triple compound, the production of which 

 is increased in the inverse ratio to the purity of the alcohol 

 employed.-T-From this preliminary sketch, it appears, that 

 water Toecomes necessary iu the ratio of the purity of the 

 alcohol ; or to speak generally, that any given quantity of 

 common spjlrit of wine would require one part, while alco- 

 hol of tiitj sspcific gravity of O'SOO would require double to 

 effect the same end. 

 This compound The ternary compound, however, resulting from any one 



a bcnzoate of ^f ^i^^^^ fluids, viz. alcohol or aethers, consists of benzoic 

 camphor, ' ' 



acid and camphor, which are brought into union, and pre- 



serYe<f 



