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DURING the last few months, whilst the brilliant researches of Prof. Emil Fischer on the synthetical production of the glucoses have been attracting so much attention, some very interesting work has been done on a compound which was formerly supposed to belong to the glucose group, viz. inosite. Maquenne, in 1887, showed that this compound, which is fairly widely distributed throughout the animal and vegetable kingdoms, is not a sugar, but a hexahydroxy-derivative of hexamethylene, having the constitutional formula—
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Optical Isomerides of Inositol. Nature 42, 21 (1890). https://doi.org/10.1038/042021a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/042021a0