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copper test but not being fermentable. The author Pride that 
the acetylic derivative of dextrose obtained by Sc on 
Crate H,0),0,,, is the octacetylic aatrauve of this n 
ompound, — Bull, Soc Ch., Il, xxii, 145, Se 
ept., 1874. 
altose.—Scuvize has reinvestigated and confirmed the 
statement of O’Sullivan that the action of malt ei upon 
a temperature ‘of 60°, was rapidly saccharified. ‘After. concent 
tion and pr ecipitation “ the dextrin by alcohol, the solution was 
evaporated to a syrup treated up alcohol, the clear solution 
poured off and peeparaten over sulphuric acid. Crystals - 
d to acrystalline mass. Reerys tallized from water or alcohol, 
6. Synthesis oy Leucie acid by means of its Nitrile.— » BauEse 
MEYER and SieeL, by acting on amyl aldehyde—obtained from 
the alcohol aredinted by fermentation—with OT cones aci 
being decomposed into the bodies from whiok® it was form 
sodi 
Potassium and ium hydrates also peor it similarly. 
Analysis cede it the formula C, hydroe Jori¢ 
acid decomposes it, producing ammonium chlo Hide and leucic acid. 
n the addition of water the latter prcitidt separates as an oi ’ 
sinking to the bottom. It is fees y means of ether, whieh 
leaves it on pains tion as a from which after a time large 
transparent crystal plates of the acid separate, having the cour 
position C,H,,0,. There can be no doubt therefore that leucie 
acid is thus constituted :— 
i. ; a he 
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Ber. Berl. Chem. Ges., vii, 1109, ig 
hee ed in large colorless ates which was soluble 
and crystallized ‘therefrom i in brilliant plates. WeiTH 
SCHEDLER examined it and pro oved it to be phthalic acid, by co* 
version into the anhydride and into calcium and barium phthala ates, 
