“…The name hydrazine was applied by Emil Fischer to the hypothetical substance N-JL, which he considered to be the parent substance of phenylhydrazine, isolated in 1875 (11, 11¡). Curtius isolated the first hydrazine salts in 1887 (6,6). Piloty, Fischer, Baeyer, and other workers found that hydrazine, and more especially phenylhydrazine (9), p-bromophenylhydrazine (10), and semicarbazide (2, 8) were of value in preparing derivatives of carbonyl compounds.…”