1. This paper is based on work performed under Contract AT(04-1)-GEN-12 between the Atomic Energy Commission and the University of California, Los Angeles
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3. α-Bromination of stearic acid is not easily carried to completion; care should be taken that the product contain little starting material lest an additional component—one probably particularly difficult to eliminate—be added to the already complex mixture.