to give a yield of 64%. Pure product, mp 174-5°C , was obtained by two successive recrystallizations from propanol, charcoal being used in the last recrystallization. About 50 ml of solvent per gram of product was necessary. Benzene was also a satisfactory recrystallization solvent. E. Transesterification Attempt. Dimethyl tetrachloroterephthalate, 25 grams (0.075 mole), was dissolved in a solution of 135 ml n-propanol, 35 ml benzene, and 2 grams ptoluenesulfonic acid. Intermittent heating and reflux over 8 days were accompanied with the addition of 60 ml benzene, 20 ml propanol, and acid (3 X 0.5 gram). Crystals obtained upon cooling were starting material, mp 157-8.5°C. Two additional crops from the reaction mixture were substantially the dimethyl ester.Comparable attempts at transesterification with sodium propoxide and titanium isopropoxide as catalysts also failed. F. ' Attempted Saponification. A mixture of 1 gram (0.003 mole) dimethyl tetrachloroterephthalate, 75 ml absolute ethanol, and 25 ml of 0.44ÍV KOH was refluxed 3 hr. After it cooled, 50 ml of water and 25 ml of 0.LV HC1 were added. Titration, using O.liV HC1, to the phenolphthalein end point gave a neutralization equivalent, after blank correction, of 242 (theory is 166). The same procedure was used, and a saponification equivalent for di-n-propyl tetrachlorophthalate of 197 was found (caled 194). Longer time and variants of this procedure with aliphatic tetrachloroterephthalates still did not give a satisfactory saponification equivalent. Substantially more drastic treatment resulted in an attack on the aromatic nucleus. Profit and Timm (10) do not report such an attack in their saponification procedure.G. Complexation Studies. Previously described procedures did not give complexes of hexamethylbenzene with aliphatic tetrachloroterephthalates as were obtained with tetrachlorophthalate and tetrabromophthalate esters (8). With dimethylaniline, colors were observed with dipropyl (pale yellow), dibutyl (pale yellow), dioctyl (greenish yellow), and bis-pentafluorophenyl (dark yellow) tetrachloroterephthalates. Other observations are reported in the discussion.H. Infrared Spectra. All were taken at 0.66% concentration in KBr pellets.I. Elemental Analyses. All were made by Spang Microanalytical Laboratories of Ann Arbor, Mich. Analyses were in satisfactory agreement with calculated values and were made available to reviewers.LITERATURE CITED