Journal of the American Chemical Society

STUDIES ON REACTIONS RELATING TO CARBOHYDRATES AND POLYSACCHARIDES. XIII. PROPERTIES OF GAMMA-DELTA-DIHYDROXY-CARBONYL …

H Hibbert, CP Burt

Index: Hibbert; Burt Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1928 , vol. 50, p. 1414

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Abstract

In previous communications2 the important role played by adjacent hydroxyl groups in the y, b-positions to the carbonyl group has been emphasized and evidence submitted of the tendency of such compounds to readily lose a molecule of water with subsequent formation of a highly polymerized product. The bearing of such phenomena on the problem of the constitution of cellulose and related compounds has been repeatedly indicated. 2