Carbohydrates ammonia

Once more, although the distributions are expressed quantitatively, there is no information on the yields of these interesting compounds made from glucose, ammonia, and hydrogen sulfide. Earlier, however, in their studies of carbohydrates-ammonia systems (47-49), Shibamoto and Russell found that the amounts of total pyrazines produced, based on the sugars, were in the range of 1-2%. 

Medium components Carbohydrates, ammonia/nitrogen Enzymatic, HPLC (Micro)-Kjeldahl, ion-sensitive electrode... 

The possibility that carbohydrate-ammonia reactions may participate in non-biological processes of humus formation under natural soil conditions received much attention during the period 1950-1960. Unlike the Mai Hard or "browning reaction, in which melanoidin pigments are formed in mixtures of sugars ana ammo acias in acidic media the ammonia reaction was... 

Phenylhydrazine on exposure to light slowly darkens and eventually becomes deep red in colour salts of the base share this property but to a lesser degree, the sulphate and acetate (of the common salts) being most stable to light. Phenylhydrazine is largely used in organic chemistry to characterise aldehydes and ketones as their phenyl-hydrazones (pp. 342, 345), and carbohydrates as their osazones (pp. 136-140). It is readily reduced thus in the process of osazone formation some of the phenylhydrazine is reduced to aniline and ammonia. On the... 

The following simple test distinguishes fructose from all other carbohydrates. Upon heating a little fructose with dilute cobalt chloride solution, cooling and treating with a little ammonia solution, a violet to purple colour is developed, - the colour gradually fades and must be observed immediately after the addition of the ammonia solution. Green cobalt hydroxide is formed with all other carbohydrates. 

The benzyl group has been widely used for the protection of hydroxyl functions in carbohydrate and nucleotide chemistry (C.M. McCloskey, 1957 C.B. Reese, 1965 B.E. Griffin, 1966). A common benzylation procedure involves heating with neat benzyl chloride and strong bases. A milder procedure is the reaction in DMF solution at room temperatiue with the aid of silver oxide (E. Reinefeld, 1971). Benzyl ethers are not affected by hydroxides and are stable towards oxidants (e.g. periodate, lead tetraacetate), LiAIH, amd weak acids. They are, however, readily cleaved in neutral solution at room temperature by palladium-catalyzed bydrogenolysis (S. Tejima, 1963) or by sodium in liquid ammonia or alcohols (E.J. Rcist, 1964). 

The elemental and vitamin compositions of some representative yeasts are Hsted in Table 1. The principal carbon and energy sources for yeasts are carbohydrates (usually sugars), alcohols, and organic acids, as weU as a few other specific hydrocarbons. Nitrogen is usually suppHed as ammonia, urea, amino acids or oligopeptides. The main essential mineral elements are phosphoms (suppHed as phosphoric acid), and potassium, with smaller amounts of magnesium and trace amounts of copper, zinc, and iron. These requirements are characteristic of all yeasts. The vitamin requirements, however, differ among species. Eor laboratory and many industrial cultures, a commercial yeast extract contains all the required nutrients (see also Mineral nutrients). 

Cellobiose was prepared first by Skraup and Konig by the saponification of the octaacetate with alcoholic potassium hydroxide, and the method was improved by Pringsheim and Merkatz.3 Aqueous barium hydroxide also has been employed for the purpose, and methyl alcoholic ammonia has been used extensively for the hydrolysis of carbohydrate acetates. The method of catalytic hydrolysis with a small quantity of sodium methylate was introduced by Zemplen,i who considered the action to be due to the addition of the reagent to the ester-carbonyl groups of the sugar acetate and the decomposition of the addition compound by reaction with alcohol. The present procedure, reported by Zemplen, Gerecs, and Hadacsy, is a considerable improvement over the original method (see Note 2). 

Natural rubber is harvested as latex by tapping trees in a manner similar to maple syrup. Tree latex contains about 35 wt% rubber solids, as well as small quantities of carbohydrates, resins, mineral salts and fatty acids. Ammonia should be immediately added to the latex to avoid coagulation by these other ingredients and to prevent bacterial degradation. After collection, the latex can be concentrated to 60-70% solids if the latex product is required for end-use. Otherwise, the latex is coagulated, washed, dried, and pressed into bales for use as dry rubber. 

Glutfflnic acid is fonned in most organisms from ammonia and a-ketoglutaric acid. a-Ketoglutaric acid is one of the intennediates in the tricarboxylic acid cycle (also called the Krebs cycle) and arises via metabolic breakdown of food sources carbohydrates, fats, and proteins. 

Studies show that the production of 1kg dry biomass requires 2.0 kg sugar, 0.7 kg oxygen, 0.1 kg ammonia, with the liberation of 12,300 k Joules heat. A typical continuous fermentation operates at a dilution rate (D) = 0.2 h 1, with sugar concentration of 3% (w/v) in the incoming medium. With a fermentor of 50 m3 capacity and 90% utilisation of carbohydrate [ie 0.3% (w/v) sugar in the outgoing medium] what would be ... 

The analytical phase generally involves the use of very dilute solutions and a relatively high ratio of oxidant to substrate. Solutions of a concentration of 0.01 M to 0.001 M (in periodate ion) should be employed in an excess of two to three hundred percent (of oxidant) over the expected consumption, in order to elicit a valid value for the selective oxidation. This value can best be determined by timed measurements of the oxidant consumption, followed by the construction of a rate curve as previously described. If extensive overoxidation occurs, measures should be taken to minimize it, in order that the break in the curve may be recognized, and, thence, the true consumption of oxidant. After the reaction has, as far as possible, been brought under control, the analytical determination of certain simple reaction-products (such as total acid, formaldehyde, carbon dioxide, and ammonia) often aids in revealing what the reacting structures actually were. When possible, these values should be determined at timed intervals and be plotted as a rate curve. A very useful tool in this type of investigation, particularly when applied to carbohydrates, has been the polarimeter. With such preliminary information at hand, a structure can often be proposed, or the best conditions for a synthetic operation can be outlined. 

The early addition of Dimedon is reported234 to depress the formation of hexamethylenetetramine from formaldehyde in the presence of ammonia. O Dea282 found that the activated methylene center, sometimes formed in periodate oxidations of carbohydrates, reacts appreciably with the formaldehyde formed, thus giving low yields of apparent formaldehyde. He was able to depress this side reaction by the use of lowered temperatures and by the addition of benzaldehyde or of p-hydroxybenzaldehyde. The analyses for formaldehyde have often been more successful at a pH of 7.5 than at lower pH values.57, 68 59a 60 264... 

Riley and Taylor [39] have studied the uptake of about 30 organics from seawater onto the resin at pH 2 - 9. At the 2 - 5 p,g/l level none of the carbohydrates, amino acids, proteins or phenols investigated were adsorbed in any detectable amounts. Various carboxylic acids, surfactants, insecticides, dyestuffs, and especially humic acids are adsorbed. The humic acids retained on the XAD-1 resin were fractionated by elution with water at pH 7, M aqueous ammonia, and 0.2 M potassium hydroxide. 

For the methylation of the free hydroxyl groups of a partially esterified carbohydrate, e.g., of a partially acetylated compound, only the Purdie method is available. Although liquid ammonia does not react with esters at — 70°C., there is a danger of saponification if the temperature of the reaction mixture is allowed to rise before all the ammonia has been removed. The aqueous alkali employed in the methods of Haworth or Menzies will, of course, remove ester groups by hydrolysis. 

Table 2.7.2. In (+ )-ionisation mode, apart from the [M + H]+ ion, the sodiated and potassiated ions could be detected. Furthermore, the fragment ion [M + H—H20]+ arising from the loss of one water molecule out of the carbohydrate moiety was formed. No ammonium adduct ion was observed although ammonia was used for pH adjustment of the eluent. In (+)-ionisation mode two fragments were detected, both containing the carbohydrate part of the molecule, [Gluc-NH2-CH3]+ and [(G1uc-H20)-NH2-CH3]+.

As far as propargyl thioethers are concerned, the substrates in this section follow all the principles discussed for propargyl ethers and propargylamines in the two preceding sections. For alkyl propargyl thioethers typical bases used are sodium amide in liquid ammonia, alcoholate or alkali metal hydroxide [178, 186-189, 191, 287-291], and again some derivatives of carbohydrates have been used successfully [292, 293], If an ester group is also present in the molecule, the reaction can be accompanied by a hydrolysis to the carboxylate [294]. 

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