Journal of the Chemical Society (Resumed)

CCLXXXVIII.—The preparation of the optically active phenylmethylcarbinols

AJH Houssa, J Kenyon

Index: Houssa; Kenyon Journal of the Chemical Society, 1930 , p. 2260,2262

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Abstract

SOME years ago, Pickard and Kenyon (J., 1911, 99, 45) obtained d-phenylmethylcarbinol by the fractional crystallisation of the brucine salt of its acid succinic ester, but were unable to prepare the corresponding I-alcohol. I-Phenylmethylcarbinol was prepared by the