Organic Chemistry
Organic Chemistry
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ISBN: 9781118133576
Author: T. W. Graham Solomons, Craig Fryhle
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
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Chapter 22, Problem 24P
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The understanding of the specificity of bacterial oxidation for commercial synthesis of the compound vitamin C is to be explained.

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▸ The chemical name for vitamin C is L-ascorbic acid. It is obtained commercially by converting the D-sorbitol into the L-ascorbic acid with the formation of an 2ketoLgluconic acid as its intermediate.

▸ The process involves two major steps which are the formation of Lsorbose form Dglucose and the second is the bacterial oxidation of D-Glucitol by the use of a microorganism, A. suboxydans.

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