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A simple, general method of reducing esters and lactones of aldonic acids to sugars by the action of sodium amalgam, according to which the process is conducted in the presence of a strong cation exchange resin to maintain optimum pH, has been proposed.
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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya No. 11, pp. 2095–2096, November, 1964
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Kochetkov, N.K., Dmitriev, B.A. New method of reducing lactones and esters of aldonic acids to sugars. Russ Chem Bull 13, 1997–1998 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00844505
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00844505