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THE synthesis of cane sugar in the laboratory has brought to triumphant completion a long chapter of endeavour on the part of the chemist. It has always been regarded as the crowning success to be won in the long series of victories achieved by the chemist in synthesising natural organic products, which began with Wöhler's first synthesis of urea a hundred years ago. It is of considerable interest, therefore, to indicate some of the stages of progress and the lessons which have been learned from them. A technical and, even more, a commercial synthesis of this product of the sugar cane and of the beet remains to be effected, but the possibility of doing this in competition with the plant is very remote.
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ARMSTRONG, E. The Synthesis of Cane Sugar: The End of a Chapter. Nature 122, 578–579 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122578a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/122578a0