Benzenehexacarboxyhc acid

The composition varies with the heat treatment and the end point according to x-ray diffraction studies it is a form of carbon that reconverts to weU-ordered graphite on heating to 1800°C. Before the use of x-rays, chemists used the Brodie reaction to differentiate between graphitic carbons and turbostratic carbons. Turbostratic carbons yield a brown solution of humic acids, whereas further oxidation of graphite oxide produces mellitic acid (benzenehexacarboxyhc acid) [517-60-2] ... 

The oxides of carbon include the very stable and abundant CO and CO2, the unstable but isolable C3O2, and more complicated carbon oxides derived from organic backbones by removal of all hydrogen, for example, C12O9, from the complete dehydration of meUitic acid (benzenehexacarboxyhc acid). Oxocarbon anions, C 0 , with apparent aromatic properties are also known. The properties of these carbon-oxygen compounds are sununarized below. 

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