Les Sucres et leurs principaux Dérivés

Abstract

THERE is no class of carbon compounds of greater interest to chemists and biologists than the sugars or, in the wider sense, the carbohydrates which form the subject of Prof. Maquenne's volume. Whether regarded from the point of view of the physiologist, who concerns himself with the part played by these compounds in the vital processes of animals and plants, or whether considered in their chemical aspect, as furnishing the most striking illustrations of the new stereo-chemistry of Le Bel and Van 't Hoff, the sugars will always be found most fascinating subjects for study and research. The great impetus to the development of our knowledge of these compounds, given by the classical researches of Emil Fischer, is one of the most remarkable examples of the interdependence of hypothesis and experiment that can be furnished by modern science—a point which is recognised by the author of the present work in the preface:—

Les Sucres et leurs principaux Dérivés.

Par L. Maquenne, Professeur au Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. Pp. ii + 1032. (Paris: Georges Carré and C Naud, 1900.)