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HYDRACRYLIC ACID (ethylene lactic acid)

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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 34 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HYDRACRYLIC See also:

ACID (See also:ethylene lactic acid) , See also:CH2OH•See also:CH2• ('O.2H. an organic oxyacid prepared by acting with See also:silver See also:oxide and See also:water on l3-iodopropionic acid, or from ethylene by the addition of hypochlorous acid, the addition product being then treated with See also:potassium See also:cyanide and hydrolysed by an acid. It may also be prepared by oxidizing the trimethy]ene glycol obtained by the See also:action of hydrobromic acid on allylbromide. It is a syrupy liquid, which on See also:distillation is resolved into water and the unsaturated acrylic acid, CH2: CH•See also:CO2H. Chromic and nitric acids oxidize it to oxalic acid and See also:carbon dioxide. Hydracrylic aldehyde, CH2OH•CH2•CHO, was obtained in 1904 by J. L. Nef (See also:Ann. 335, p. 219) as a colourless oil by See also:heating acrolein with water. Dilute alkalis convert it into crotonaldehyde, See also:CH3•CH : CH.CHO.

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