Cellobiose and £-methylcellobioside

The considerations involving comparisons of the structures of cellobiose and / -methylcellobioside with the structures of mercerized and native cellulose, respectively, when taken together with the additional observation that the basic repeat unit derived from the diffractometric studies is 10.3 A rather than 5.15 A, require that data relating to the structure of cellulose be reexamined with the constraint that the anhydro-cellobiose unit, rather than the anhydroglucose unit, is the basic repeat unit. To the author s knowledge, no efforts have been made to interpret... 

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