The electrolysis of organic compounds : Papers / by Hermann Kolbe (1845-1868).

  • Kolbe, Hermann, 1818-1884.
Date:
1900
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    I have not prosecuted my experiments further upon inorganic substances, having from some observations on the behaviour of organic compounds under the action of the voltaic current obtained results of so much greater interest, as to induce me to give them my exclusive attention; and at a future time, when I have completed the investigation, I shall beg leave to communicate it to the Chemical Society. ON THE DECOMPOSITION OF VALE- RIANIC ACID BY THE VOLTAIC CURRENT* 'HPSHE very remarkable changes which a series of X organic compounds undergoes by means of the voltaic current, have induced me to make that mode of decomposition the subject of a thorough investigation. As however the numerous difficulties which present them- selves in researches of this nature, and the immense extent of the field which opens before us, do not admit of the results being communicated in a complete and connected form, I beg to lay before the Chemical Society a short preliminary notice of the changes which valerianic acid undergoes when exposed to the oxidizing action of the voltaic current, reserving a more complete description of the products obtained till the investigation shall have been brought to a close. When the voltaic current, excited by six pairs of Bunsen's carbo-zinc battery, is permitted to act on a concentrated neutral solution of valerianate of potash in * [From Memoirs and Proceedings of the Chemical Society of London, Vol. 3 (1848), pp. 378-380. Read April 19, 1847.]