Abstract
DR. LEVENE'S monograph deals with an important group of natural compounds, closely related to the simple sugars. Some of the properties of the parent-compounds are described briefly in the first chapter, in which the existence of ring-systems of different size is referred to; but Haworth's proof that even glucose itself contains a 6-atom instead of a 5-atom ring calls for a further revision of formulae which have been accepted for a generation without any foundation of experimental proof. The remarks of the author, in reference to chitosamine, that “much of the chemical structure of the sugar was formulated correctly rather by instinct than by experimental evidence,” appears to be capable of a much wider application, but with a reservation as to the necessary correctness of the ‘ instinctive ’ formulæ.
Hexosamines and Mucoproteins.
By P. A. Levene. (Monographs on Biochemistry.) Pp. x + 163. (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1925.) 10s. 6d. net.
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Hexosamines and Mucoproteins . Nature 117, 851 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/117851a0
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