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280 Scientific Intelligence. 
From the distillation of balsam of Tolu, Deville ae a hydro- 
carbon C,, which has been named a toluole; it is a homologue 
of benzole. This substance furnished Drs. Mesoises no Hofmann “by 
the process of Zinin, a new organic base, toluidine, a homologue of 
well deserves reading, and is particularly valuable for a tabular view 
of the parallel anisic and phenic series. Most of the compounds i in the 
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of the phenic series, and in some cases, furnishes compounds without a 
parallel in the latter series. Still more, in the paper above mentioned, 
Drs, Muspratt and Hofmann announce a new base, nitraniline, being 
— in which one equiv. of H, is replaced by NO,—a most re- 
markable discovery, for the entrance of the elements “of nent of 
sees without effect upon the basic properties of the original sub- 
We shall presently see that three new bases of this singular 
kind have 
toluole that phenole does to benzole, has already furnished bi- and tri- 
nitric species, in which 2H and 3H are replaced by 2NO, and 3NO,. 
By acting eon anisole with fuming se acid and keeping the mixture 
cold, M. Cahours has succeeded in forming the mono-nitric anisole— 
an amber odlabed aromatic, heavy Said boiling at about 505° F. This 
substance is readily decomposed by an alcoholic solution of hydrosul- 
hate of ammonia; empires is deposited and a new i ats * 
it may be called, C,, H, , crystallizes in he reddish brown lus- 
trous needles, insoluble in water; but readily soluble in boiling alcohol. 
Some of its salts are colorless when quite pur 
nitric acid forms with toluole a liquid mono-nitric, and a 
crystalline bi-nitric species. The former furnished with oe 
of ammonia, toluidine, to Drs. Muspratt and Hofmann. ‘The latter by 
the same reagent has given M. Cahours a new alkaloid, the nitric tolu- 
idine, C,, H, N, Oy, being toluidine with H replaced by NO,. 
Anisic acid with fuming nitric acid is found to form among other 
products, a new acid isomeric with tri-nitric anisole, and a perce oo 
of picric acid. This substance, chrysanisic acid, C,, H, 
crystallizes from alcohol in beautiful golden yellow rhombohedral plates. 
It is distinguished from similar acids by giving a very soluble salt with 
potas 
om The salycilic ether of wood-spirit -_ of wintergreen) forms a cryS- 
til 
line compound with bases, which furnishes on distillation, anisole. 
n like manner, Cahours has found pee the salycilic ether of alcohol, 
a crystalline compounds, and that of baryta on distillation gives @ 
new substance, phenetole, 16 Hyo Og, a homologue of aniso ole. This: 
when acted upon by strong nitric acid, forms a binitric species, resem- 
bling — anisole, and probably also a trinitric species. 
coholic solution of the former with sulphuretted hydrogen - 
sdesoaia,: forms nitric pease’ the OO of nitric anisidine. 
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