Journal of the American Chemical Society

ROTENONE. III. DEHYDROROTENONE1

FB LaForge, LE Smith

Index: LaForge; Smith Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1930 , vol. 52, p. 1091,1094

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Abstract

Butenandt2 has shown that a number of oxidizing agents, such as permanganate, potassium ferricyanide, perbenzoic acid and iodine with potassium acetate in alcoholic solution, convert rotenone into dehydrorotenone with a loss of two hydrogen atoms. Dehydrorotenone is a yellow crystalline compound melting at about 225'and differing widely from rotenone in most of its reactions. Compounds corresponding to dehydrorotenone are ...