Abstract
It was intended to investigate the method discovered by Campbell and Mulr (unpublished) for removing halogen from aromatic halogen compounds by heating in a sealed tube with cuprous cyanide, pyridine
and water. It was realised, when the work was still
in the preliminary stages, that the apparatus available
was unsuitable. Owing to war conditions, suitable
apparatus was not readily available. A new furnace
was not obtained until April 1945, when only a few
weeks were left in which to complete the work. This
investigation was therefore abandoned pro tempore and
attention was turned to the synthesis of halogenophenylacetic acids and their derivatives.
