Master_Que
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Anthranilic Acid from Indigo
I read somewhere that anthranilic acid was first made with indigo...
so, I wanted to try to make it this way. I was going to reduce the indigo to leucoindigo with copper electrodes, and then I heard that you then add
KOH and keep the reaction very cold.
I had a few questions... What reaction is this called? And can the KOH be present already when I'm reducing the indigo.
Thanks
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Boffis
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I don't know how practical this method is but I have certainly seen it referred to in several old organic chemistry books, check out some of those on
the forum library or if you can find Richter vol 3 Aromatic compounds and they will probably give you a reference to the original paper but it may be
very old and almost certainly in German.
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