Work of Dr. James C. Irvine

• Book ID: 104127604
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1929
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 193 KB
• Volume: 208
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(29)90415-4

✦ Synopsis

More than 70 papers on the chemistry of sugars have been published by Sir James and his co-workers, in the Transactions of the Chemical Society.

The elucidation of the structural chemistry of the carbohydrates, which involved the very difficult task of disentangling from each other a series of closely-similar substances, long presented many stumbling blocks which even the finest experimental skill could hardly surmount.

The discovery of the phonylhydrazones and osazones by Emil Fischer enabled this celebrated chemist to carry to successful completion, in a relatively short period, a vast research which ended with the determination of the structure and special configurations of 539