Abstract
The chemistry of α-alkylated arylhydrazines is familiar, but the corresponding α-acyl compounds have received no attention owing to their comparative inaccessibility. It will, however, now be possible to repair this deficiency as a result of our observation that salts of these compounds are produced together with carbon dioxide quantitatively at once when a solution of a sydrione in benzene is treated successively with a molecular proportion of water and of hydrogen chloride or bromide in ether1. We relate the extreme facility of this decomposition in its last stage to the benzidine change and formulate it as follows:
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KENNER, J., MACKAY, K. α-Acyl Hyclrazines. Nature 160, 465–466 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160465b0
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