When kept fused for some time at a low heat, it is converted into fumaric acid; and when quickly distilled, it yields maleic acid, while fumaric acid is left in the retort.
Maleic acid is obtained by distilling malic or fumaric acids; by heating fumaric acid with acetyl chloride to 100 deg.
When heated with concentrated hydrobromic or hydriodic acids, it is converted into fumaric acid.
Maleic anhydride is obtained by distilling fumaric acid with phosphorus pentoxide.
Defn: Of or pertaining to the Glaucium or horned poppy; -- formerly applied to an acid derived from it, now known to be fumaric acid.
Defn: Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from malic acid, and now called fumaric acid.
Defn: Pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the ethylene series, metameric with fumaric acid and obtained by heating malic acid.
Pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the ethylene series, metameric with fumaric acid and obtained by heating malic acid.
The most marked case presented is that of maleic and fumaric acids.
Dessaignes immediately gave Pasteur a small quantity of the aspartic acid which he had prepared by means of fumaric and malic acids.
Dessaignes, who later on became one of the correspondents of the Academy of Sciences, announced that he had transformed fumaric and malic acids into aspartic acid.
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