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THE oxidative degradation of α-glycols by periodic acid has found many applications in carbohydrate chemistry, one of the most important of these being C. S. Hudson's1 investigation of the reaction between this reagent and the methyl hexopyranosides, which are attacked with disruption of the ring and elimination of the third carbon atom of the hexose as formic acid. In the case of reducing disaccharides consisting of 1:4-linked hexopyranose residues, the reducing
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BROWN, F., DUNSTAN, S., HALSALL, T. et al. Application of New Methods of End-Group Determination to Structural Problems in the Polysaccharides. Nature 156, 785–786 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/156785a0
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