Older chemical literature may deserve re-examination.

Abstract

It has been mentioned elsewhere (J. Chem. Educ, 21, 336, (1944)) that some older chemical literature is occasionally found to be pertinent to current research on problems which in earlier years commanded only academic interest and therefore deserves re-examination in a new light. This is especially true with regard to the Russian scientific literature, which was never very completely reported outside of Russia.Two groups of chemists enrolled in classes in Russian for scientists were recently given an assignment to acquaint themselves with the contents of the group of notes on naphthenes published in the Journal of the Russian Physico-Chemical Society listed below and to determine to what extent they were reported in Chernisches Zentralblatt, Chemical Abstracts, and the abstracts in the Journal of the Chemical Society. The articles in