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PROF. S. STENHAGEN recently directed our attention to the need for a direct determination of the configurations of tiglic and angelic acids, because in recent synthetic work on certain 2-methyl-alkenoic acids the assignment of geometrical configuration has been based primarily on the correlation of their spectral data with those of the simplest acids of the series, tiglic and angelic.
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PORTE, A., ROBERTSON, J. Configurations of Tiglic and Angelic Acids: an X-Ray Determination. Nature 176, 1116–1117 (1955). https://doi.org/10.1038/1761116a0
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