We have prepared from the non‐saponifiable matter of wheat germ oil thress aflophanates:
1. M.p. 250°. This is a possibly the allophante of β‐amyrin. The alcohol regenrated from the allopohante has no vitamin E potency.
2. M.p. 138°, readily crystallizing in long needles. The analysis agree with values required by monollophantes of an alcohol, C39H50O2. The alcohol from this allophante apparenelly has some vitamin E potency, but less than that from the third allophanate.
3. M.p. 158‐160°. From this allophanate, the alcohol—for which we propose the name α‐tocopherol—when given in a single dose of 3 mg. always enables vitamin E‐deficient rats to bear young. α‐Tocopherol shows a characteristic absoption band at 2980 Å., E1 per cent1 cm. = 90 ca. Treatment with methyl alcoholic silver nitrate converts it to a substance which has absorption bands at 2710 and 2620 Å respectively, E1 per centcm. = 480 ca., and possesses and some vitamin E activity.
α‐Tocopherol yields a crystaline p‐nitrophenylurethane melting at 120‐131°. Analyses of both the urethane and the allophanate indicate a provisional formula for α‐tocopherol of C29H50O2
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