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IN a recently published paper1, it was shown that a number of aldose sugars are oxidized at characteristic rates by the action of hypoiodous acid. The rate of oxidation appears to be related to the structural configuration for any particular aldose; thus glucose and xylose show a similar rate of oxidation, which is, however, different from that shown by galactose and arabinose, and different again from that shown by mannose. The magnitude of these variations in the rate of oxidation is sufficiently great to enable a positive identification of the configurational group to which any one of these aldoses may belong. This work (loc. cit.) suggested that kinetic measurements of the hypoiodous acid oxidation of sugar derivatives of the aldose type might yield valuable information on the structure of such derivatives.
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INGLES, O. Structure of Chitosamine. Nature 163, 484–485 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163484a0
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