I. A Study of the Chemistry Leading to Probable Structures for Cyameluric Acid and Some Related Compounds. II. The Diliturates of Some Physiologically Important Bases

Citation

Redemann, C. Ernst (1940) I. A Study of the Chemistry Leading to Probable Structures for Cyameluric Acid and Some Related Compounds. II. The Diliturates of Some Physiologically Important Bases. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/mdgr-fq10. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:01032025-210830379

Abstract

Recently the question of the structure of cyameluric and hydromelonic acids has been reopened by Pauling and Sturdivant. It is rather surprising that cyameluric acid and related compounds, for example melon, melam, melem, and hydromelonic acid, should have received so little attention at the hands of organic chemists. With the exception of a limited amount of work by E. C. Franklin and students, the problems in this field have been neglected for many years. Since most of these compounds are insoluble both in organic solvents and in water, show neither melting nor boiling points, are inert chemically with the exception that they undergo hydrolytic cleavage, and do not yield derivatives which are readily identified, it is probable that the reasons for this neglect bear some relation to their physical and chemical properties

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