Two common qualitative tests for unsaturation are the reaction of the compounds with bromine in carbon tetrachloride and with potassium permanganate. In both cases a positive test is denoted by decolorization of the reagent.wo common qualitative tests for unsaturation are the reaction of the compounds with bromine in carbon tetrachloride and with potassium permanganate. In both cases a positive test is denoted by decolorization of the reagent.
On this day in 1917, the text of the so-called Zimmermann Telegram, a message from the German foreign secretary, Arthur Zimmermann, to the German ambassador to Mexico proposing a Mexican-German alliance in the case of war between the United States and Germany, is published on the front pages of newspapers across America.
Content[edit] The message came in the form of a coded telegram dispatched by the Foreign Secretary of the German Empire, Arthur Zimmermann, on 11 January 1917. The message was sent to the German ambassador to Mexico, Heinrich von Eckardt. Zimmermann sent the telegram in anticipation of the resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare by Germany on 1 February, an act the German government presumed would almost certainly lead to war with the United States.