Allied Chemical and Dye Corporation

Reactions of SOa, Tech. Service Bull. SF-2, General Chemical Division, Allied Chemical and Dye Corporation, 40 Rector Street, New York 6, N. Y. 

The potassium acid salt of acetylenedicarboxylic acid is commercially obtainable from the National Aniline Division, Allied Chemical and Dye Corporation, New York, New York. Directions for the preparation of the free acid are given in earlier volumes.2-3... 

Commercial cyclohexanone obtained from the Barrett Division of the Allied Chemical and Dye Corporation was used. 

In December 1920 Allied Chemical and Dye Corporation came into being. As a holding company, it acquired a number of different companies, with different product lines. One of its acquisitions was the National Aniline and Chemical Company, with its core staff from the days of Cassella company. Thus, it too would benefit from German expertise. The principal prewar importers of German chemical products— Adolf Kuttroff (Badische)... 

The thermal chlorination of methane is carried out on a large scale in this country by Dow Chemical Company, Diamond Alkali Company, and Allied Chemical Dye Corporation, Solvay Process Division. High-purity methane is mixed with cycle gas and then with chlorine and the mixture introduced into a packed reactor heated to 350-400 C, where chlorine is completely reacted in the excess of hydrocarbon and chlorinated hydrocarbon. The effluent gases contain excess methane and all the chlorinated methanes, which may be separated after condensation by fractional distillation. When reaction temperatures are increased, a competing reaction develops with the formation of perchloroethylene. 

Dictionary of American Biography, supplement 6, s.v. Meyer, Eugene Isaac Allied Chemical Dye, Fortune (June 1930) 130 Reader, Imperial Chemical Industries, 1 361 Spencer Trask Co., A Brief Account of the Achievements and Progress of Allied Chemical Dye Corporation Since Its Formation in 1920, with a Twelve-Year Record of Income and Resources, October 16, 1933, FPG, box 50 Haynes, American Chemical Industry, 6 9. Chandler describes the Allied Chemical merger in 1920 as a failed strategy, a collection of firms making disparate chemicals... 

After Allied troops had captured Tunis in May of 1943, the drug fell together with pharmacological reports into the hands of Americans, who confirmed back home its superior efficacy compared to quinine and atabrine. The latter, an acridine dye, also known as mepacrine, originated as well from the discovery programme at Bayer and was first synthesised by Fritz Mietzsch and Hans Mauss and tested by Walter Kikuth around 1932. Bayer s collaboration and distribution partner in the US, Winthrop Chemical Corporation, had increased its production of atabrine by 1944 to annually 3,500 million tablets, with an additional 2 million tablets from the British ICl, in support of Allied forces. The... 

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