Abstract
Methyl-diphenylmethyldichloramin is a new compound recently synthesized by Neff in some work he is doing in the study of a molecular rearrangement under the direction of Julius Stieglitz. To avoid the cumbersome chemical name of the compound we will call it dichloramin-M. This substance is of interest not only because of its skin-irritating properties, but also on account of its relation to Dakin's dichloramin-T. In naming dichloramin-M, we have followed Dakin's analogy; M for methyl, T for toluene. 1 Dichloramin-M is a white crystalline substance; insoluble in water; soluble in ether, acetone, ethyl acetate, chloroform, carbontetrachlorid and benzene; difficultly soluble in absolute alcohol, 95 per cent., and ligroin. The chlorin atoms are both electropositive, as in hypochlorites, and the compound may therefore be considered as a substituted amid of hypochlorous acid. When hydrogen is substituted for chlorin, in chloramin-M, the original amin, methyl-diphenyl methylamin, is formed. The amin is slightly
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