Organic Chemistry
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Author: T. W. Graham Solomons, Craig B. Fryhle, Scott A. Snyder
Publisher: WILEY
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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
▸ The process involves two major steps which are the formation of
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The NMR data for the two anomers...Ch. 22 - Shikimic acid is a key biosynthetic intermediate...
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