Mesoxalic acid readily absorbs and reacts with water to form a product commonly called "mesoxalic acid monohydrate", more properly dihydroxymalonic acid, HO−(C=O)−C(OH)2−(C=O)−OH.[2] In product catalogs and other contexts, the terms "mesoxalic acid", "oxomalonic acid" and so on often refer to this "hydrated" compound. In particular, the product traded as "sodium mesoxalate monohydrate" is almost always sodium dihydroxymalonate.
^ abcHenry Enfield Roscoe (1888), A Treatise on Chemistry, volume 3, part2 Organic Chemistry, p. 161. D. Appleton and Co., New York
^The chemical structure of caffuric acid was given in Allen, W. F. (1932). The preparation and pyrolytic molecular rearrangment [sic] of the 8-ethers of caffeine: And their conversion to 8-methyl and 8-ethylcaffeine. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Edwards Brothers.
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