Reichstein-Grussner process

The industrial production of ASA has been dominated by the Reichstein-Grussner process (Fig. 8.29) [146] since the mid 1930s. Although the intermedi-... 

L-Aseorbie acid (9), or vitamin C, is produced at large scale by the Reichstein-Grussner process, which dates back to the 1920s (Scheme 7) [33], It involves the enzymatic oxidation of n-sorbitol (8) that is, in turn, obtained from D-glucose (see 5.3.2). 

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