284 Transactions. 



by crystallizing from ethyl alcohol. Thus obtained, methyl montanate 

 melted at 67-67-5°. The melting-point was not changed by further 

 crystallization. 



Methyl montanate is a white soft solid, soluble in hot ethyl alcohol, 

 and less soluble in methyl alcohol. It crystallizes from both solvents 

 in glistening spangles. 



Montanamide. — This compound was prepared in small quantity by 

 heating 0-880 ammonia with ethyl montanate for three days in a sealed 

 tube. It began to melt at 109°, and was completely melted at 111°. The 

 sample was too small for analysis. 



C. MELLISIC ACID AND DERIVATIVES. 



The melting-point of melissic acid obtained from montan wax was 

 shown in Part I to be 88-5°. Schwalb* and Brodief also give the melt- 

 ing-point of melissic acid prepared from beeswax as 88-5°. On account 

 of the difficulty in obtaining melissic acid, only three derivatives could 

 be prepared. 



Melissone. — This ketonej was prepared from melissic acid obtained 

 from both beeswax and montan wax. 0-5 grams melissic acid obtained 

 from beeswax, and melting at 88-5°, was kindly placed at my disposal 

 from laboratory stock. 



Melissone was prepared in a similar way to cerotone and montanone. 

 The ketone, after repeated crystallization, melted at 99-5-100°, and the 

 melting-point was not changed by further crystallization. Melissone is 

 a white solid, insoluble in the usual solvents, slightly soluble in hot ethyl 

 acetate, and fairly soluble in amyl alcohol. 



A 40-per-cent. yield was obtained by this method of preparation. 



Melissone Oxime. — The small quantity of ketone remaining from the 

 preceding preparation was utilized for the preparation of the oxime by 

 a similar method to that employed in the case of cerotone and montanone 

 oximes. 



The oxime, after repeated crystallization from ethyl acetate, melted 

 at 84°. The sample was too small for analysis. 



Melissanilide. — This compound was prepared from melissic acid, 

 derived from montan wax, in a similar way to the anilides of cerotic and 

 montanic acids. The anilide, after crystallization from acetic acid and 

 ethyl acetate, melted at 103°, and the melting-point was unchanged by 

 further crystallization. 



Melissanilide is a white compound easily soluble in ethyl acetate and 

 motor spirit, and fairly soluble in alcohol. 



* Annalen, 235, p. 135. 



t Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc, 1848. 



J Schwalb — "Non -acid Constituents of Beeswax" (Journ. Cbem. Soc, 1885) — men- 

 tions that a ketone melting at 97-99° is produced during the potash-lime fusion of 

 myricyl alcohol. 



