452 



Action of Ethylene Chlorhydrin, fyc. [Mar. 30, 



three days' heating, the oily layer had entirely disappeared. The 

 mixture was cooled and extracted with ether, and the aqueous solution, 

 slightly coloured brown, was concentrated. After a few days, the 

 solution contained a great amount of brown crystals, which were 

 strongly pressed between layers of paper, and finally dissolved in 

 absolute alcohol. The solution was treated with animal charcoal, 

 filtered boiling, and, after cooling, anhydrous ether was added, so as to 

 float on the alcoholic layer. The next day the alcoholic solution was 

 filled with magnificent colourless prisms, some of which traversed the 

 entire vessel. This salt is a chloride of oxethyl quinoline, 



V f)P XT 



CnH 12 NO Cl= C 9 H 7 N< b, 

 formed by the addition of glycol chlorhydrin to quinoline. 



Theory. 



Carbon 6320 63-01 



Hydrogen .... 5*96 5*72 



Nitrogen 6'83 6'68 



Chlorine 1629 .... 16*11 .... 1742 



This chlorhydrate has a bitter taste, attracts the atmospheric mois- 

 ture, and is very soluble in water and in alcohol, insoluble in ether. 

 Its aqueous solution is not precipitated by ammonia, and gives with 

 potassa a thick, coloured precipitate. Boiled for several seconds with 

 oxide of silver, the solution forms chloride of silver and reduced silver, 

 and the filtered liquid possesses a very strong alkaline reaction, and 

 rapidly assumes a crimson tint. The hydrate of plumbic oxide decom- 

 poses this chloride in a similar manner. Corrosive sublimate forms 

 with it a compound which crystallises easily. 



Chloride of gold produces, in the solution of this chloride, a yellow 

 precipitate, soluble in boiling water, from which it crystallises on 

 cooling in small crystals, which appear under the microscope as 

 pointed lozenges. This chloroaurate possesses the formula 



C n H 12 lSrOCl,AuCl 3 . 



Theory. 



Carbon 26-21 2577 



Hydrogen 2*94 2*34 



Gold 37-98 38-30 



Platinum chloride forms a chamois-yellow precipitate in the solution 

 of the chloride. This precipitate is soluble in a large quantity of 

 boiling water, and crystallises from the cold solution in small opaque 

 orange crystals of the formula (C n H 12 NOCl) 2 PtCl, 



