Glucose, the Basic Unit

Chain Structure of Cellulose 1. D-Glucose, the Basic Unit 

The marked uniformity and apparent homogenity of carefully purified cotton fiber has made this a desirable material for determining the structure of cellulose. The acetylation of purified cotton fiber was thus shown by Irvine and Soutar to yield cellulose triacetate which upon treatment with methyl alcoholic hydrogen chloride gave a mixture of methyl a- and 

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