Acyclic Sugar Alcohols

Barker, S. A.

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S. A. Barker

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Acyclic sugar alcohols are polyhydroxy compounds forming the homologous series of tetritols, pentitols, hexitols, and heptitols etc. They occur naturally both in the free and combined states and are widely distributed among the various plant families (Table 1, p. 60). The simplest member, glycerol, is a constituent of such naturally occurring compounds as fats (see: Fats and other lipids, p. 317), glycerol monophosphate (Posternak, 1935), and 2-glyceryl α-D-galactoside (floridoside), a crystalline glycoside isolated from red algae (Colin, 1937). Erythrin, an ester of erythritol and lecanoric acid, was discovered in lichens by Rao and Seshadri (1940). The presence of a d-ribityl residue in riboflavin (vitamin B₂) is of particular interest since the latter is also a constituent of the co-enzyme diaphorase and of the “yellow enzyme”. The sugar alcohols, themselves, function as reserve carbohydrates in many plants, and they may occur also as the result of the action of bacteria on carbohydrates present in the plant exudate.

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Barker, S.A. (1955). Acyclic Sugar Alcohols. In: Paech, K., Tracey, M.V. (eds) Modern Methods of Plant Analysis / Moderne Methoden der Pflanzenanalyse. Modern Methods of Plant Analysis / Moderne Methoden der Pflanzenanalyse, vol 2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-64955-4_2

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