Chemical investigation involving study of the several phenoxy acetic acids and their derivatives has been chiefly concerned with their insecticidal and herbicidal activity. Of the six phenoxy substituted acetic acids (phenoxy, 2-chlorophenoxy, 4-chlorophenoxy, 2, 4- dichlorophenoxy, 2, 4, 5-trichlorophenoxy and 2, 4, 6-trichlorophenoxy) the derivatives of the two trichloro acids described in this paper are not reported in the literature. It was of ...
