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IN a preliminary communication1 we reported that by treatment of osones with hydrocyanic acid, succeeded by hydrolysis, we obtained products which possessed the strong reducing power of ascorbic acid. Starting from d-xyloson we were able to isolate a small amount of the reducing substance as the crystallised acetone derivative. From the melting point, analysis and iodine-titration, we considered the substance to be the acetone derivative of d-ascorbic acid.
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Helv. chim. acta, 16, 561; 1933.
NATURE, 130, 847, Dec. 3, 1932.
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REICHSTEIN, T., GRÜSSNER, A. & OPPENAUER, R. Synthesis of d- and l-Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C). Nature 132, 280 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132280b0
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