Some Reactions of the 2, 4, 6-Tribromophenyl β-D-Pyranosides of Glucose and Xylose

LH Koehler, CS Hudson

Index: Koehler; Hudson Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1950 , vol. 72, p. 981

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Abstract

Summary The net effect of the action of the wood-destroying fungi, Lentinus lepideus, Poria vaillantii and Lenzites sepiaria on white Scots pine and white fir woods is a depletion in the cellulose composition of the wood, together with a concomitant increase in the relative content of lignin. 2. After seven months of decay by Lentinus lepideus there is approximately a two-fold increase in the yield of alcohol-extractable lignin from the decayed wood in ...