On the mutual action of sulphuric acid and naphthaline, and on a new acid produced

In this communication Mr. Faraday shows that when sulphuric acid and naphthaline act upon each other, a peculiar compound pos­sessed of distinct acid characters is the result. This acid is most readily obtained by heating two parts of naphthaline with one of sulphuric acid. The mixture concretes on cooling, and separates into two parts, the uppermost of which is little else than naphthaline, but the lower, heavier part contains the peculiar acid, which, being soluble in water, is easily separated by that fluid, not, however, pure, but still containing mixed sulphuric acid. The author, however, ob­tained the pure acid by decomposing its compound with baryta, which is soluble, by sulphuric acid. It then had a bitter sour taste, and formed a distinct class of salts with the different bases, all of which are soluble in water and in alcohol, and combustible. By careful evaporation of the aqueous solution of this acid, a white crystalline deliquescent solution was obtained, evolving water when heated, and at high temperatures affording sulphurous acid, char­coal, and naphthaline. To determine the ultimate component parts of this acid, its compound with baryta was subjected to rigid analysis.

1899 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 484-522
Author(s):  
Sydney A. Kay

In the year 1847, as one of the results of an investigation to determine the part played by the mass action of water in chemical reactions, H. Rose (Pogg. Ann., lxxxii. 545) showed that an acid sulphate in aqueous solution is progressively decomposed into free acid and neutral sulphate by increasing quantities of water. His observations were confirmed and extended by the thermo-chemical researches of Thomsen (Pogg. Ann. 1869, cxxxviii. 72), and Berthelot (Ann. Chim. Phys., 1873, xxix. 433), who indicated more exactly the course and extent of this decomposition, and from whose work it is known that in the solution of an acid sulphate there exist free sulphuric acid, neutral sulphate and acid sulphate. Finally Ostwald, in his first memoir on chemical affinity (Jour, prakt. Cliem. 1879, xix. 483), showed how to determine the magnitude of this decomposition, and was able to approximately measure the quantity of free acid in solutions of the acid sulphates at different dilutions. In a later paper (ibid., 1880, xxii. 305), Ostwald investigated the question of the influence of water on the action between sulphuric acid and a neutral sulphate. He measured the changes of volume which occurred when solutions of sulphuric acid and sodium sulphate were mixed in varying proportions, and at different dilutions, and obtained results in agreement with his previous work. He also pointed out, that if the mutual action between the acid and neutral sulphate obeyed the general law of mass action, it should follow that, for example, one molecule sodium sulphate plus three molecules sulphuric acid, give the same quantity of acid sulphate as one molecule sulphuric acid, and three molecules sodium sulphate, the volume of the mixture being the same in each case.


1975 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 673 ◽  
Author(s):  
DJ Collins ◽  
C Lewis ◽  
JM Swan

Treatment of cyclododecane-r-1,c-5,c-9-triyl tris(p-toluenesulphonate) with sodium azide in dimethyl-formamide at 100� for 6 h gave the corresponding cis,cis-triazide which upon hydrogenation or reduction with lithium aluminium hydride gave cyclododecane-r-1,c-5,c-9-triamine, isolated as the tris-salicylidene derivative. Acid hydrolysis of this, removal of the salicylaldehyde, and treatment of the aqueous solution with sodium carbonate and 2,3-dimethoxybenzoyl chloride gave r-1,c-5,c- 9-tris(2,3-dimethoxybenzamido)cyclododecane. ��� Treatment of (E,E,E)-cyclododeca-1,5,9-triene with an excess of acetonitrile and sulphuric acid at room temperature for three days gave 18% of (E,E)-1-acetamidocyclododeca-4,8-diene; no di- or tri-amides were isolated.


1826 ◽  
Vol 116 ◽  
pp. 140-162 ◽  

In a Paper on new compounds of carbon and hydrogen , lately honoured by the Royal Society with a place in the Philosophical Transactions, I had occasion briefly to notice, the peculiar action exerted on certain of those compounds by sulphuric acid. During my attempts to ascertain more minutely the general nature of this action, I was led to suspect the occasional combination of the hydro-carbonaceous matter with the acid, and even its entrance into the constitution of the salts, which the acid afterwards formed with bases. Although this opinion proved incorrect, relative to the peculiar hydro-carbons forming the subject of that Paper, yet it led to experiments upon analogous bodies, and amongst others, upon naphthaline, which terminated in the production of the new acid body and salts now to be described. Some of the results obtained by the use of the oil gas products are very peculiar. If, when completed, I find them sufficiently interesting, I shall think it my duty to place them before the Royal Society, as explicatory of that action of sulphuric acid which was briefly noticed in my last Paper.


2010 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 406-411 ◽  
Author(s):  
ZHANG Xuetong ◽  
ZHANG Ronghua ◽  
HU Shumin ◽  
YU Wenbin

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