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solved in a liquid-ammonia solution of benzenesulfonamide. After 
adjusting the concentration of the solution and cooling in a bath of liquid 
ammonia a crop of beautiful crystals of the composition represented by 
the formula, C6H5S02NHAg.2NH3, separates from the solution. On 
standing in a vacuum at 20° the salt loses one molecule of ammonia of 
crystallization. Heated at 200° it loses the second molecule. 
The action of the acid on the base is shown by the equation : 
C6H5SO2NH2 + AgNH2 = C6H5S02NHAg + NH3. 
In a similar way the following salts have been obtained : 
Thallous ammonobenzenesulfonate, CsHoSOzNHTl, C6H5SO2NHTI . NH3, and . 2NH3. 
Cuprous ammonobenzenesulfonate, C6H5SO2NHCU and C6H5SO2NHCU . 2NH3. 
Thallous ammonoparatoluenesulfonate, CH3C6H4SO2NHTI, and CH3C6H4SO2NHTI . 2NH3. 
Cuprous ammonoparatoluenesulfonate, CH3C6H4SO2NHCU, and CH3C0H4SO2NHCU . 2NH3. 
Silver ammonoacetate, CHsCONHAg and CHgCONHAg . 2NH3. 
Thallous ammonoacetate, CH3CONHTI and CH3CONHTI . 2NH3. 
The Action of Liquid-Ammonia Solutions of Ammono Acids on Metallic 
Hydroxides and Oxides. Reactions between some of the stronger ammono 
acids and metallic hydroxides are known to take place in water solutions. 
In order to ascertain whether metalHc hydroxides and oxides would 
dissolve in Hquid ammonia solutions of acid amides to form ammono 
salts, cupric hydroxide and silver oxide were submitted to the action of 
liquid-ammonia solutions of benzenesulfonamide with the result that 
reactions took place as represented by the equations: 
Cu(0H)2 + 2C6H5SO2NH2 = 2C6H5SO2NHCU + 2H2O 
Ag20 + C6H5SO2NH2 = CeHsSOsNHAg + H2O, 
Dried in vacuo at 20° cupric ammonobenzenesulfonate retains four 
molecules of ammonia of crystallization. The silver salt is identical with 
the silver ammonobenzenesulfonate described above. 
The Action of Liquid-Ammonia Solutions of Acid Ammono Esters on 
Ammono Bases. Such compounds as acetanilide and other aryl and 
alkyl derivatives of the acid amides are acid ammono esters which by 
virtue of their acid properties should be capable of reacting in Kquid- 
ammonia solutions with metallic amides to form compounds which are 
at the same time ammono esters and ammono salts. 
Four such compounds have been prepared; namely, silver phenyl 
ammonoacetate, CHsCONAgCeHs and CH3CONAgC6H5.NH3, by the 
action of a solution of acetanilide on silver amide; thallous phenyl am- 
monoacetate, CH3CONTIC6H5, by the action of acetanilide on thallous 
nitride; potassium benzyl ammonoacetate, CH3CONKCH2C6H5.NH3, 
