Abstract:
A propellant charge in the form of a powder strip having holes or apertures therein for indicating the length thereof to be used in a firing device having a cartridge chamber with guides on one wall to effect a coiling of the powder strip when inserted thereinto by way of an inlet slit from a magazine via a measuring device.
AND THE CINCHONNE SALTS THEREOF. THESE COMPOUNDS ARE MADE BY REACTING CHINCHONINE WITH D- AND OR L-N-BENZOYL-3,4-DIHYDROXYPHENYLALANINE AND THEN CRYSTALLIZING THE SALT FROM MIXTURES OF WATER WITH LOWER KETONES,LOWER ALKANOLS LOWER ETHERS OR MIXTAURES THEREOF IN ORDER TO SEPARATE AND RESOLVE THE OPTICAL ISOMERS. THESE SALTS ARE CLEAVED TO THE OPTICALLY PURE- OR L-N-BENZOYL-3,4-DIHYDROXYPHENYLALANINE WHICH IS ITSELF CLEAVED TO 3,4-DIHYDROXYPHENYLALANIME.
Abstract:
PROCESS FOR PRODUCING L-N-BENZOYL-3,4-DHYDROXYPHENYLALANINE BY RESOLVING A MIXED DL-N-BENZOYL-3,4-DIDHYDROXYPHENYL-ALANINE; RECOVERING THE L-ISOMER; REACTING THE D-ISOMER WITH ACETIC ANHYDRIDE; PRECIPITATING THE ACETOXY DERIVATIVE THUS FORMED; HUDROLYZING THE ACRTOXY DERIVATIVE WITH ALKALI METAL TO FORM RACEMIC DL-N-BENZOLY-3,4-DIHYDROXYPHENYLALANINE; RESOLVING THE RACEMATE; RECOVERING THE LISOMER; AND RECYCLING THE D-ISOMER.