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Paper, 'Researches on the action of sulphuric acid on the nitriles and on the amides' by G B [George Bowdler] Buckton and A W [August Wilhelm von] Hofmann

Reference number: AP/36/6

Date: 1855

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Buckton and Hofmann share details of their experiments regarding the action of sulphuric acid on the nitriles and on the amides.

Subject: Chemistry

Received 1 December 1855. Communicated by Hofmann.

This paper was published in full in volume 7 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the action of sulphuric acid on the nitriles and on the amides'.

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AP/36/6
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1855
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George Bowdler Buckton

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August Wilhelm von Hofmann

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George Bowdler Buckton, August Wilhelm von Hofmann, Paper, 'Researches on the action of sulphuric acid on the nitriles and on the amides' by G B [George Bowdler] Buckton and A W [August Wilhelm von] Hofmann, 1855, AP/36/6, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_36_6/paper-researches-on-the-action-of-sulphuric-acid-on-the-nitriles-and-on-the-amides-by-g-b-george-bowdler-buckton-and-a-w-august-wilhelm-von-hofmann, accessed on 18 March 2025

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