IntroductionCompounds with a phenol group will form a blue, violet, purple, green, or red-brown color upon addition of aqueous ferric chloride. This reaction can be used as a test for phenol ...

IT has recently been reported1 that in dimethylformamide solution, ferric chloride can photo-initiate the polymerization of acrylonitrile. We, also, have found during the course of another ...