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DR. F. WOKES and his colleagues have referred1 to the chemical similarity of the reductones to vitamin C. The production of reductones by heating carbohydrates with alkali2 is incorrectly attributed by them to Norrish and Griffiths, but it may be mentioned that the latter3 obtained a high yield of reductone (hydroxypyruvic aldehyde) by irradiating glyoxal vapour with violet and near ultra-violet light.
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Wokes et al., NATURE, 152, 14 (1943).
Dr. Wokes has kindly informed mo that the reference should be to Euler and Martius, Annalen, 505, 73 (1933).
Norrish and Griffiths, J. Chem. Soc., 2829 (1928).
Wohl and Bräunig, Chem. Z., 44, 157 (1920).
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GRIFFITHS, J. Reductone and Vitamin C. Nature 152, 163 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/152163a0
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