Identification of Certain Solvents by the Xanthate Reaction: Application to Alcohols

WF Whitmore, E Lieber

Index: Whitmore; Lieber Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Analytical Edition, 1935 , vol. 7, p. 129

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Abstract

ITHIN the past decade the application of chemical research to industrial problems has made available W in quantity organic solvents which previously had been considered only as museum specimens or laboratory curiosities (18, 25). This development has been due chiefly to the investigation and utilization of products obtainable from petroleum and natural gas, although new synthetic and fermentation processes have played an important part. ...