Where would I find references to the synthesis or production of
1,3-bis[tris(hydroxymethyl)methylamino]propane, a.k.a bis-tris
propane, CAS No. 64431-96-5?

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Clarification of Question by drace-ga on 01 Feb 2005 17:48 PST

The catalogs would tell me how much it would cost to buy it from that
organization, not how to synthesize it myself.  I've looked aqt hard
copy of Chem Abstracts up till 1990 without success; I don't have
access to later volumes of it.

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Clarification of Question by drace-ga on 01 Feb 2005 17:49 PST

The catalogs would tell me how much it would cost to buy it from that
organization, not how to synthesize it myself.  I've looked at hard
copy of Chem Abstracts volumes up till 1990 without success; I don't
have access to later volumes of it.

As the compound has a CAS #, one of the first places I'd look (after
catalogues, which I sadly don't have handy at the minute) would be
Chem Abs itself...


Stephan

Point taken in part, but many chemical catalogues I've seen in the
past have literature references to uses and preparations of the
compounds they sell. If you can find it for sale, you may be able to
contact the company and find out what sort of route they use.

Stephan - My experience is that such catalogue references are for
applications of the chemical of interest, rather than its synthesis. 
In the "make or buy" situation, catalogue companies have little
interest in their potential customers choosing the former route.
Alan

I found a synthesis of I think this compound and quite a few related
compounds using MDL Crossfire Commander( sort of, Crossfire gave me
the wrong starting page). The article is from JACS and can be found at
this link:

http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/archive.cgi/jacsat/1944/66/i06/pdf/ja01234a010.pdf

Note: your university, place of work, or even you need to have acess
to JACS journals (which I assume you do since you were using Chem
Abs).
The journal is 
Journal of the American Chemical Society 1944, Vol. 66, Issue 6, pp. 879-881
Also there is a Chem abstracts reference from 1947 pg. 774.