[...]... Salicine 81 9 10 II Electrolysis of Blood Electrolysis of Albumen Electrolysis and Electrosynthesis with Alternating Currents Ammonium carbamate Dehydration acid Phenol Capronic acid LIST OF INDEX 81 81-82 AUTHORS Phenol-sulphuric 82-86 87 91 INTRODUCTION WHILE the electrolysis of inorganic compounds has already obtained a recognized position in pure and applied science, the action of the electric current,... strength of the In consideration of the current are in no case given 1 Pogg Ann., 8 Tommasi, Trait6 d'Electrochimie, 3 4 19, 77 1889, 728 Pogg Ann., 19, 77 Pogg Ann., 36, 487; Phil Mag., 18, 47 OF ALIPHATIC COMPOUNDS importance of these data and the 5 fact that the result dependent upon the density and potential of the electric current and the influence of of the electrolysis is the dissociative power of. .. character of the electrolytes ELECTROLYSIS AND ELECTROSYNTHESIS OF ALIPHATIC COMPOUNDS I The (a) Hydroxyl Compounds investigations on the behavior of the mon- atomic alcohols have been confined almost entirely to methyl and ethyl alcohol, both of which show comIn those cases where plete analogy in their reactions platinum electrodes were used and similar results were obtained both with and without... different conditions required for inorganic and organic electrolysis give a distinctive character to In inorganic the history of these two branches electrolysis one investigation follows as a continuation of those preceding upon it The later investigators stand the shoulders of their predecessors tematic and regular development case is is A different in organic electrolysis, sys- The the result Difficulties... nothing of importance has been overlooked While in inorganic electrolysis chief attention is given to the primary processes in the cell, in organic electrolysis the secondary actions claim our special interest, since the factors which are chiefly active in effecting the synthesis or decomposition of i.e., hydrogen, oxygen, etc., organic are the compounds, result of primary decomposition of the organic. .. 38-42 Electrolysis of ethyl-potassium malonate and fumarate 42 : ELECTROSYNTHESES OF MULLIKEN AND WEEMS Ethane-tetracarboxylic ester Ethane-hexacarboxylic ester Diacetyl-succinic ester Dimethylester ethane-tetracarboxylic Diethyl-ethane-tetracar- Tetracetyl-ethane boxylic ester Electrolysis of Diacetyl-succinic ester Acid amides 2 - 42-43 43~44 Cyanogen Compounds Hydrocyanic acid, electrolysis and electrosynthesis. .. electricity in Few the latter only of the many themselves have been undertaken tasks presenting This book aims to give, as briefly as possible, a review of what has already been accomplished, and at the same time to create an interest in the performance of experiments on the electrolysis and electrosynthesis of organic compounds AACHEN, Electrotechnical Laboratory of the Polytechnic Institute November... Cheoiie, p 482 (1896) ELECTROLYSIS AND ELE CTROS YN THESIS 12 are much since the acids are mostly simpler, conductors of electricity, both in good and in solution the free condition, as well as in the form of Kolbe's ' classical investigations organic compounds, in salts on the electrolysis of which he demonstrated the formation of the hydrocarbons from the acids, are the foundation of later investigations... the subject of thorough investigation carried out chiefly Bartoli The by 3 by Brester, and Papasogli Renard* and Bourgoin, 6 8 progress of the decomposition is accompanied the evolution of carbon dioxide and oxygen at the positive pole and hydrogen at the negative pole The quantitative relations of the decomposition products vary with the concentration of the solution and the The density of the current... and Herz, who deny stitution reactions mol-di-iodide, as by the is this*) made by Messinger and Vortmann, iodide Similar to Lob this also is the pre- a tetra-iodo-phenol-phthalein paration of nosophene, (Classen and 9 thymol with the addition of electrolysis of potassium Analogous to these sub- the formation of aristol? a di-thy- 4 ) Of diatomic alcohols only glycol seems to have been the subject of . book aims to give, as briefly as possible, a review of what has already been accomplished, and at the same time to create an interest in the performance of experiments on the electrolysis and electrosynthesis of organic compounds. AACHEN, Electrotechnical Laboratory of the Polytechnic Institute. November. 1895. vi CONTENTS. INTRODUCTION xi I. ELECTROLYSIS AND ELECTROSYNTHESIS OF ALIPHATIC COMPOUNDS. i. (a) Hydroxyl. alt="" ELECTROLYSIS AND ELECTROSYNTHESIS OF ORGANIC COMPOUNDS. BY DR. WALTHER LOB, Privatdocent in the University of Bonn. AUTHORIZED TRANSLATION FROM THE AUTHOR'S ENLARGED AND REVISED EDITION BY H which are chiefly active in effecting the synthesis or decomposition of organic compounds, i.e., hydrogen, oxygen, etc., are the result of a primary decomposition of the organic electrolyte. In a systematic description of the results obtained it would therefore