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Giua and Reggiani [87] reacted sodium alcoholate with trinitrotoluene in acetone
solution and obtained several addition products, containing various proportions of
alcoholate (l-3 molecules of C 2 H 5 ONa for 1 molecule of trinitrotoluene). By
treating the products with an inorganic acid, they obtained yellow, amorphous
compounds, which they regarded as mixture of several substances, which were
dibenzyl delivatives. e.g.:Stefanovich [88], on the basis of Meisenheimer’s formulae, ascribes the formulae
VII and VIII to the addition products of α− trinitrotoluene with two or three mole-
cules of potassium alcoholate respectively.