ON SOME DERIVATIVES FROM THE OLEFINES. 627 
I. 0:2579 grms. gave 34°82 per cent. carbon, and 4:82 hydrogen. 
ITI, 0:2620 grms. gave 34:26 per cent. carbon, and 5:25 hydrogen. 
III, 0:1838 grms, gave 9°39 sulphur. 
C,, H, 2 (NO,) 8 Found— 
requires, Te LL, III. 
C =33°89 34°82 34:26 ae 
H= 5:08 4:82 5°25 Eee 
S= 9:04 ‘ ase 9°39 
The body contained no chlorine, but abundance of nitrogen. 
Writing, as before, the bisulphochloride of amylen 
8 
10 §Cl, 
we may suppose that the nitric acid replaces one equivalent of hydrogen and one 
of C1 S by nitroxine, giving rise to the body 
H, 8 
10 NO, NO, 
In fact, a similar phenomenon is here presented as was observed in studying 
the action of the same body upon chlorine,—that is, the group S Cl is, under both 
circumstances, more easily replaced than the remaining equivalent of sulphur. 
. The body formed by the action of nitric acid upon the bisulphochloride of 
amylen is therefore, according to the previously adopted nomenclature, the 
nitrosulphide of nitramylen, or, according to analogies already pointed out, the 
sulphide of binitramyl. It is a green, viscous liquid. It mixes with ether 
and strong alcohol, but is insoluble in water. Its taste is remarkably bitter and | 
alliaceous, producing nausea. 
They who have had occasion to prepare the organothionic acids, got by the 
action of nitric acid upon the various organic sulphides or sulphocyanides will 
have noticed that, before complete reaction,—that is, before the conversion of the 
whole of the substance acted upon by the nitric acid into the organothionic acid 
soluble in water,—it is generally possible, by arresting the action with water, to 
procure a liquid insoluble in and heavier than water, although the original 
organic body itself be lighter than that liquid. Such bodies do not appear to 
have been further examined, owing, probably, to the uncertainty as to whether 
an integral reaction has occurred, and the probability of the product being a 
mixture, the separation of whose constituents would present great difficulties. 
Bearing, however, in mind the analogies already pointed out between the chlorine 
substitution products of bisulphide of ethyl, bisulphochloride of chlorethylen, and 
bisulphochloride of ethylen, it seems highly probable that the bodies in ques- 
tion are analogous with the nitrosulphide of nitramylen. 
C,, H 
C 
The Synthesis of Ginanthyl. 
The construction of isotypic series in organic chemistry, which has proved of 
such great worth in classifying known bodies, and in indicating the possible 
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