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  1. Newsgroups: sci.chem
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cts.eiu.edu!cfthb
  3. From: cfthb@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Howard Black)
  4. Subject: Re: Organic Chem Experts, please help me with this!
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec29.175030.14037@ux1.cts.eiu.edu>
  6. Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 17:50:30 GMT
  7. References: <1992Dec27.161724.22215@news.nd.edu> <NS14.92Dec28020829@crux2.crux2.cit.cornell.edu>
  8. Organization: Eastern Illinois University
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  11. In article <NS14.92Dec28020829@crux2.crux2.cit.cornell.edu> ns14@crux2.crux2.cit.cornell.edu (Nathan Otto Siemers) writes:
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  13. >    These are esters of phthalic acid, which I think are benzene
  14. >rings with two carboxylic acids attached to the ring.  They are often
  15. >ortho, but need not be so.
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  17.     If they're not ortho, it's not phthalic acid.
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  21.      Howard Black                             cfthb@ux1.cts.eiu.edu
  22.      Department of Chemistry                  Eastern Illinois Univ. 
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