Originally Posted by Photo Engineer The Merck Index will give you references to making it as well. The 8th Ed lists three references. I suspect the easiest to find/decipher is: Meldola, Foster, Brightman, J. Chem. Soc. 111, 552 (1917) It's prepared from p-aminophenol and chloracetic acid. I'm not a chemist, use at your own risk, yada yada. Ed