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quarter to one half inch long-, always with a slig-ht yellow 
color. It is easily soluble in cold benzene and carbon tetra- 
chloride and hot glacial acetic acid. It is slightly soluble in 
cold ligroin and fairly soluble in hot ligroin. It crystallizes 
from alcohol in long slender prisms. One hundred cubic cen- 
timeters of boiling alcohol will dissolve approximately 7 
grams and at 25° about 2.5 grams' It is insoluble in and 
unchanged by boiling water. When boiled in concentrated 
hydrochloric acid the odor of chloral could be detected in the 
vapors. A bromo derivative is readily obtained by adding 
bromine to a concentrated glacial acetic acid solution. The 
crystals occur in clusters of needles and decompose at about 
230°. This compound is being further investigated. 
Chloral and p-Anisidine. 
Trichlorethy lidenedi-f-methoxy -phenamine , 
CCl 3 CH(NHOCH 3 C 6 H 4 ) a . 
To a solution of 12.3 grams p-anisidine in 20cc benzene (a 
nearly saturated solution) is added 7.3 grams chloral. The 
solution turns to a dark red color at once, much heat is devel- 
oped and a deposition of 0.22 gram small colorless crystals 
occurs. These decompose at about 215° as in the case with 
o-anisidine. After filtering, the reaction mixture is boiled 
15 minutes and then allowed to stand several hours. An 
abundant crystalline precipitate is formed. After filtering 
and pressing on a clay plate, the product melted at 115° and 
weighed 10.5 grams. A further yield was obtained from the 
mother liquor. Purification was effected by using the mixed 
solvent, benzene and ligroin. The melting point was raised 
to 118°-120°. 
Analysis: 
0.2087 gram substance gave 0.2398 gram AgCl 
Calculated for . 
C i6 HONC1 
i6 jy 2 2 3 
Cl 25.35 
Found 
28.41 
