Dumas, Malaguti, and F. Leblanc (1847) "Sur l'identité des acides métacétonique et butyro-acétique" [On the identity of metacetonic acid and butyro-acetic acid], Comptes rendus, 25 : 781–784. Propionic acid is named on p. 783: "Ces caractères nous ont conduits à désigner cet acide sous le nom d'acide propionique, nom qui rappelle sa place dans la séries des acides gras: il en est le premier." (These characteristics led us to designate this acid by the name of propionic acid, a name that recalls its place in the series of fatty acids: it is the first of them.)
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Johann Gottlieb (1844) "Ueber die Einwirkung von schmelzendem Kalihydrat auf Rohrzucker, Gummi, Stärkmehl und Mannit" (On the effect of molten potassium hydroxide on raw sugar, rubber, starch powder, and mannitol), Annalen der Chemie und Pharmacie, 52 : 121–130. After combining raw sugar with an excess of potassium hydroxide and distilling the result, Gottlieb obtained a product that he called "Metacetonsäure" (meta-acetone acid) on p. 122: "Das Destillat ist stark sauer und enthält Ameisensäure, Essigsäure und eine neue Säure, welche ich, aus unten anzuführenden Gründen, Metacetonsäure nenne." (The distillate is strongly acidic and contains formic acid, acetic acid, and a new acid, which for reasons to be presented below I call "meta-acetone acid".)
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