Nitration

Correspondence, patents, publications, notes, production plans, proposals, memos, reports, and data belonging to the Commercial Solvents Corporation (CSC), as well as the personal files of Richard S. Egly, CSC’s Associate Scientific Director, and Emory E. Toops, Jr., a physical chemist in CSC’s Technical Development Department. The collection deals with the production of nitroparaffins and nitroparaffin derivatives, an area in which Commercial Solvents Corporation was preeminent.

The 1877 reprint is entitled Tri-substitution derivatives of Benzol. The reprints from 1879 are On a new Base and On the Products Obtained by the Nitration of Metachlorsalicylic Acid.