Sorbitol, more correctly called D-glucitol (Hutchinson, 1958) and hereafter referred to in this thesis by the ordinarily used name of sorbitol, is the alcohol of D-glucose. Its chemical structure is identical to that of glucose except for an alcohol group which replaces the aldehyde group of glucose on carbon 1, identified in the structure of sorbitol as shown below. It occurs naturally in a straight chain form with the following structure. Sorbitol has been shown as a constituent of plants since 1872 (Boussingault, 1872, cited by Stuart, 1955) and has since been identified in many plants, in particular members of the family Rosaceae, including the apple, Malus pumila.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.115028 |
| Date | January 1962 |
| Creators | Whetter, Jennifer. M. |
| Contributors | Taper, C. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science. (Department of Agriculture.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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