A Preliminary Study of the Conductivity of Certain Organic Acids in Absolute Ethyl Alcohol at 15°, 25° and 35°.

Abstract

Considerable work has been done in this laboratory, especially during the past five years, on the conductivity and dissociation of organic acids in water as a solvent, over a fairly wide range of temperature and dilution. This investigation is a continuation of those in non-aqueous and mixed solvents, which have been in progress in this laboratory during the past dozen years2 Since, up to the present but very little has been done here with solutions of the organic acids in absolute ethyl alcohol, it was decided to extend our investigations into this field.3 A few rather crude measurements of the conductivity of organic acids were made comparatively early in the history of the conductivity method. W a k e~n a n ,~ in 1893, measured the conductivities of certain organic acids in mixtures of alcohol and water, ranging from pure water to 5 0 7~ alcohol. He calculated the dissociations of these acids and their dissocia-This investigation was carried out with the aid of a grant t o H. C. Jones from the Carnegie Institution of Washington.

Reactions and Uses of Tetrachlorophthalic Anhydride

“…The acid esters of methyl, ethyl (35,69), d-amyl, isoamyl (65), and benzyl alcohols (68, 104) have been formed by direct esterification. Even at room temperature and without a catalyst, the acid esters were obtained (59,120). No diester resulted from these reactions (69,99).…”