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Groover—Aluminium Alcoholates. 
show how, through suitable means, such a stable group as the 
hydroxyl group of an alcohol may be attacked and torn apart. 
Further work which is being done will no doubt bring to 
light other results of interest, and it is quite possible that the 
reaction may be turned to account in a commercial way as a 
means of purifying certain alcohols from traces of others which 
are more easily acted upon by the amalgam. 
Madison , Wis. 
