Ueber einfache Pflanzenbasen und ihre Beziehungen zum Aufbau der Eiweissstoffe und Lecithine

Abstract

THIS work is a valuable contribution to plant chemistry by a well-known worker who, by his own researches, has considerably enlarged our knowledge in this special domain. He has found it possible to give a summary of recent work and theoretical views of a complex character which is extremely interesting but might easily have been made a very dull affair. After briefly formulating; the simple bases and amino-acids occurring; in plants, the author proceeds to discuss their relationships and the probable way in which they are actually built up in the plant. He develops a simple hypothesis by which amino-ethyl alcohol (which he himself recently isolated as a product of the hydrolysis of lecithin) and amino-acetic acid are formed from glyeol and glycollic acid, and regards these substances as the simple bricks from which the complex lecithins and proteins are built up.

Ueber einfache Pflanzenbasen und ihre Beziehungen zum Aufbau der Eiweissstoffe und Lecithine.

By Dr. G. Trier. Pp. iv + 117 (Berlin: Gebrüder Borntraeger, 1912.) Price 5.6o marks.