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with benzonitryl when - vapor of benzoate of ammonia is passed 
over ignited caustic bar 
M. Chancel refers to ae analogy pointed out by Gerhardt pagina 
the ethers atid the products of the action of the mineral acids upon 
hydrocarbons ;* as between nitrobenzene and nitromethol, silehoes 
zenic and sulphomethylic acids. He has extended this view still far- 
acid and benzene, minus H, O, so benzophenone is — from the 
benzoic acid and nzene, minus the same elemen C, Hy 
+C, H,=C,,H,,O+H,0O. As the name of oatab has “already 
been to benzene, which in reality does not “i to the benzoic 
series, M. Chancel observes that it will be well t sly to its deriva- 
tives We names of nitrophenone and abe Nikzoune, which will have 
the advantage = recalling their relations to . enone. ‘TT. 
n the Action of Nitric Acid upon Butyrone, Laver and 
Cu HANCEL, (Compt. Rend. des Trav. de pis 1848, p. 174.)—The 
acid obtained some years since by M. Chancel, by the action of nitric 
acid upon butyrone, and by him named baty ronitric acid, has been sub- 
mitted to a new examination, from which it results that its nicew: is 
C,H,NO,=C,H,X0O,; it is consequently nitrometacetonic acid. 
The normel acid being C,H, O,. It is insoluble in, and more heavy 
than water; has a ver sweat t aste and an aromatic odor. _ Its salts are 
erystallzable and explode by heat; that of potash forms yelian scales 
ra iodofor ia 
On Sulphate’ Benzamid ; by A. Canours, (Compt. Rend. des 
Tiaw. de Chim., Avril, 1849, de Comp. Rend. del’ Acad., 1. xxvil, p- 239.) 
—As the nitryls by fixing H, O or 2H, O yield: asiae or ammoniacal 
salts, M. Cahours was iasirone to dewrmnin’ whether from the analogy 
between water and sulphuretted hydrogen, it might be possible to pro- 
duce the corresponding sulphuretted compounds. On dissolving benzoni- 
tryl in slightly ammoniacal alcohol and saturating with H, 5, the solution 
became discolored, and after some time on concentratin by evaporation, 
~ Potassium decomposes it with the formation of a sulphuret and 
cyanid. M. Cahours proposes to pursue this interesting inquiry. 
Tes. 
May, 1849, p. 430, anew substance was (pT) as dicenvarte by Dr. 
of lime. To this the discoverer assigned the formula C, Cl, Nz Oro: 
As this seemed quite anomalous, I proposed in it ts place, assuming, the 
quantities of carbon and chlorine fans to be slerct, C, HCI, N, Ojo 
and the more readily as his analysis actually gave a quantity ‘of hydro- 
gen amounting to one equivalent. M. Gerhardt remarking upon this 
1849, =" imie Organique, tom. ler, p. 154. See also this Journal for July, 
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