: “Notes ‘ON SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH. Pees ov Rie 115%: 
cols. 3 3) was “obfained, a feoloriess oil ‘(b. p- 128 to 1300, 13 mm; dp 1.1111; 
piso 1.5306; mol. refract. 45, 64); further 2- phenylpropylglycol-1, 3 was obtained, a 
<i colorless viscous liquid (b. p. 176°, 13 mm.; d¥> 1.1161; Npiso 1.0427; mol. refrac. 42.92), _ 
- which quantitatively passed over into a ore (b. p. 162 to 164°, 13 mm.). Anethole 
a: yielded, after three days’ stirring with formaldehyde in 30 per cent. sulphuric acid, 
the: ‘methylene of the p-methoxyphenylbutylglycol, a colorless, viscid fluid (b. p. 168 to 
170°, 13 mm.; dy5 1.1197; npr6o 1.5344; mol. refrac. 57.78). On oxidising the methylene — 
ether with Sotesciain permanganate anisic acid was produced. It is to be concluded 
from this, that the nucleus is not attacked by the formaldehyde. /sosafrole treated 
. analogously with formaldehyde gave the methylene ether of the 3 ,4-methylenedioxy- 
_ -phenylbutylglycol, a_ colorless, viscid fluid (b. p. 182 to 184°, 13 mm.; ds 1.2272; 
. Npizo 1.5408; mol. refract. 56.84). Camphene was boiled under a reflux condensed for 
Bos. days with trioxymethylene in glacial acetic: ‘acid. The oil was separated with water, 
_ dried, and on boiling with glacial acetic acid was converted into homocamphenol acetate 
(b.p. 124 to 128°, 13 mm.; d3> 1.0013; npiso 1.4821; mol. refract. 59.23). On boiling 
_ -pinene with tigcymethylene and glacial acetic acid, saponifying and fractionating, the 
- colorless homopineol was obtained (b. p. 113 to 116°, 13 mm.; di> 0.9720; npi90 1.4862; 
mol. refract. 49.05). In a similar way lifmonene with formaldehyde gave the colorless 
‘homolimonenol (b. p. 122 to 126°, 13 mm.; d®2 0.9757; Mpiso 1.5026; mol. refract. 50. 26). 
Cedrene, after 3 days’ stirring with formaldehyde in glacial acetic acid and 10 per cent. 
sulphuric acid, gave, after saponifying, in addition to many higher boiling point products, 
_ the homocedrenol, a colorless, viscid liquid (b. p. 168 to 171°, 13 mm.; aot 1 0270; 
4  Miptse 1.5183: mol: refract. 69, 08). , 
4 The method of moist chlorination, which is especially aawantancaus with tow boiline 
et hydrocarbons, has already been employed by O. Aschan’) on already substituted hydro- 
carbons, ¢. g.. ethyl chloride, isoamyl chloride, ethylene chloride, chloroform, propyl 
_ bromide, ethylene ern, ethyl iodide, POW Cne ae ae Here the presence of 
SOs -+-nH,0, which indeed, 
4 only ‘below O° really separates out, but which, fcaves also at higher temperatures: 
can temporarily exist. The catalytic effect of light rests probably on the formation 
of the complex Cls in the chlorine exposed to day light. 
water acts catalytically in the forming of a hydrate j4 
.! 
We take the fallowirige announcement on anethole from a work on the catalytic : 
effect at solid surfaces and on the reduction of substances with ethylene linkages by 
_—E.F. Armstrong and T. P. Hilditch*). On the reduction of this ether in presence of 
0.15 per cent. of nickel at 180° a solid crystalline body was produced— still to be 
_ investigated — together with the normal product of reaction, ee eanethiee preferably 
Dy Ngee with sealed apparatus. , 
Re allyl compovnds see p. 41 of this Report: 
eee 
Apaliite of ijoebibine with the aid of bacteria. -“ Up’ to now it has been im- 
-possibje to isolate cyclic saturated hydrocarbons from mixtures with aliphatic saturated 
_ hydrocarbons, as they come into question with the petroleums. These two series of 
3 
4) The position of the phenyl! groups is not apparent from the formula. — 2) Finska Kemistsamfiunidets 
_ Medddenden. As per Chem. Zentralbl. 1919, 1. 221. — i Journ. Soc. Abe Ind. 39 (1920), T. 122. 
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