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ducted through three wide glass tubes each of one-half a liter capa- 
city, containing equal weights of pounded glass and of mercuric 
which afforded on fractioning a small quantity of ethylene chloride 
boiling below 100°, but consisted chiefly of a product boiling at 
the structural formula *__. The reaction by which 
HCl CHCl 
this monochlorethyl moncchloracetate is produced is 
/H,CH Cl H,—O—CH 
Os} é as the first stage; and 
/H,CH Cl CH,Cl H,Cl 
CH,—O—CH, Cl CO—O— 
2 
CH,Cl OH,Cl 
No products resulting from the action of one molecule of hypo- 
i one of ethylene appear to be formed.— Ser. 
Berl. Chem. Ges., xi, 1958, Nov. 1878. ; G. F. B. 
3. On the Hydrogenation of Benzene-—The tendency in some 
quarters to consider benzene as a final hydrocarbon, in consequence 
i a. 
-+ (HCl), as the second. 
mp 
ture of 275° to 280° for some time. Inthe new experiments, several 
of benzene, were sealed and heated to 270° for twenty hours. The 
benze ‘umi 
analyzed. It was a mixture of C,H,, and C,H,,. A second treat- 
ment with hydriodic acid gave nearly pure ©,H,, A third gave 
a mixture of C,H,, and C,H,, And finally a fourth treatment 
gave C.H,, boiling between 68'5° and 70°. ‘This is the final term 
gen.—Ann. Chim. Phys., V, xv, 150, Oct. 1878. G. F. B. 
4. On the Action of Hypobromous acid on Ethylene dibromide. 
—Demo ze has been led by theoretical views to study the action 
