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heating dl brompropionic ethylester with silver oxide several 
hours at 120° the main product in the action was dilactic diethyl 
ester just as in the action of the sodium salt of lactic ethyl ester 
on dl brom propionic ester, acording to von Bruggen. 
H O 
I ^ 
CH 3 _C—C—OC 2 H 6 
Br\ A g 
O 
Br^* Ag 
CH 3 _C— C—OC 2 H 5 
H % 
BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
Table of Abbreviations used in preceding footnotes and in this bib¬ 
liography. 
(1) Ann.=Liebig’s Annalen der Chemie und der Pharmacie. 
(2) Ber.=Berichte der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft. 
(3) C. R.=Comptes Rendus de l’Academie. 
(4) Ann. de Ch. et de Phys. — Annales de Chemie et de Physique. 
(5) J. Ch. Soc. or J. L. Ch. Soc.=Journal London Chemical Society. 
(6) J. Am. Ch. Soc.=Journal American Chemical Society. 
(7) Am. Ch. J.—-American Chemical Journal. 
(8) Bioch. Zeit.=Biochemische Zeitschrift. 
(9) Zeit. fiir phys. Ch.=Zeitschrift fur Physikalische Chemie. 
(10) Zeit fiir physiol. Ch.=Zeitschrift fur physiologische Chemie. 
(11) J. Pr. Ch.=:Journal fiir Practische Chemie. 
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Frop. of Acrylic and Ily dr acrylic acid. 
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and Erlenmeyer: Ber. 3, 341. 
2. A study of acrylic acid. Claus: Ann. Suppl. 2,128; Linnemann: 
Ann. 163, 95 Ann. 171, 292. 
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323. Wichelhaus: Ann. 143, 1. 
5. Proof that hvdracrylic acid and ‘aethylenmilchsaure’ are identi¬ 
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6. Acrylic acid gives hydracrylic by simply boiling with water. 
E. Klimenko: Ber. 23c. 325 (1890). 
