“…Reduction to a phenolic alcohol and analysis as an oxygenated compound (3,6,7,9,19) were also considered, but the manipulations were too involved for a good routine method; chlorination, bromination, or iodination were no improvement (10, SO). Other investigators converted fatty acids to methyl esters (6,12) to aid their movement on the gas chromatograph; still others converted barbiturates and acidic drugs to methyl esters (4, 23); or analyzed mono-and di-carboxylic acids in resinous substances as methyl ester (16,17); determined cyclic (14). phthalic (8,22), benzoic acids (9, 30), and mixtures of ethers of aromatic acids (18) as esters.…”