Picric acid P icric acid (trinitrophenol) has a number of laboratory uses, the most common being Bouin's ¯uid, a ®xative used in preparation of tissues for histological evaluation. Laboratory hazardous waste managers handle excess picric acid and wastes containing picric acid with caution because of
Pure picric acid
✍ Scribed by J.S.H.
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1923
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 53 KB
- Volume
- 195
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0016-0032
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✦ Synopsis
A =ETI-IOD has been developed by which anthraquinone may be determined quantitatively in mixtures containing also phenanthraquinone, anthracene, phenanthrene, phthalic anhydride, phthalic acid, or other oxidation products of anthracene or phenanthrene. It consists essentially in reducing the anthraquinone to the red oxanthranol, using zinc powder and 5 per cent. solution of sodium hydroxide. The red solution is filtered in vacuum and titrated with standard potassium permanganate.
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The title compound, C 12 H 9 NSÁC 6 H 3 N 3 O 7 , is a 1:1 adduct of neutral phenothiazine (pz) and picric acid (pa). A weak bifurcated N-HÁ Á Á(O,O) hydrogen bond links the pa and pz species and an intramolecular O-HÁ Á ÁO bond occurs within the pa molecule. The O atoms of one of the pa nitro group