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phase reported for HCl and HBr,” but probably not the major portion. Aclcnouiledgment. We wish to thank Professor David A. Dows for a helpful discussion of the reflectance mirror system. Acknowledgment is made to the donors of The Petroleum Research Fund, administered by the American Chemical Society, for support of this research. (11) H. B. Friedrich and W. B. Person, J. Chem. Phya., 39, 811 (1963).
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radation of acetylalanine cannot be represented simply in terms of the rearrangement H
RCONHCH(CH3)R
RCONHz
I + C-R
(1)
II
CH2 since we find G(acry1ic acid) that the N, 0 shift
