Journal of the American Chemical Society

An Antistine Intermediate

AJ Tomisek

Index: Tomisek Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1949 , vol. 71, p. 3568

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Abstract

According to this proposed mechanism, the aldehyde carbon of the hexose eventually becomes the carbon of the resultant formic acid. This latter assumption has now been substantiated by an examination of the products from 1-c'4-D-glU-cosel and hydrobromic acid: The levulinic acid produced was devoid of radioactivity whereas the formic acid showed quantitatively the radioactivity previously possessed by the aldehyde carbon of ...