Basic Beryllium Derivatives of Organic Acids

Preparation. Listed methods of preparation are most extensive for the basic acetate. Methods for the preparation of this compound, however, are generally applicable to the other members of the series. 

Action of Organic Acid on Beryllium Carbonate or Basic Carbonate. This method is similar in all respects to the above procedure. While it has been used most extensively for only the simpler members of the series, there is no apparent reason why it should not be equally effective for the preparation of other members as well. The procedure is one of the few claimed to give the basic formate. Directions given for the preparation of the basic acetate (synthesis 3) and basic propionate (synthesis 3) represent modifications of this general procedure. 

Miscellaneous. Preparations of the basic formate by heating the normal formate under reduced pressure (30 to 35 mm.) and by boiling the normal formate with a water 

In addition to the compounds listed in Table I, corresponding basic derivatives of the following acids have been reported crotonic isocrotonic levulinic succinic cyano-acetic mono-, di-, and trichloroacetic monobromoacetic monochloro- and monobromopropionic lactic glycolic ethyl- and phenylglycolic (a-hydroxybutyric and mandelic, respectively) and salicylic. Confirmatory evidence for the identities of most of these is completely lacking. 

Chemically, the basic beryllium compounds are stable toward heat, toward oxidation except under very drastic conditions (e.g., boiling with nitric acid), and toward cold water. Treatment with boiling water usually effects hydrolysis slowiy treatment with mineral acids normally yields the corresponding beryllium salt and the free organic acid. 

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Basic beryllium derivatives of organic acids, synthesis 2... 

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