ADVANCES IN CARBOHYDRATE CHEMISTRY VOLUME 15 This Page Intentionally Left Blank This Page Intentionally Left Blank Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry Editor MELVILLE L. WOLFROM Associate Editor R. STUART TIPSON Board of Advisors R. C. HOCKETT w. w. PIGMAN C. B. PURVES J. C. SOWDEN ROYL. WHISTLER Board of Advisors for the British Isles E. L. HIRST STANLEY PEAT MAURICE STACEY Volume 15 1960 ACADEMIC PRESS NEW YORK and LONDON Copyright 0,1980, by Academic Press Inc. ALL BIQHTS RESERVED NO PART OF THIS BOOK MAY B E REPRODUCED I N ANY FORM, BY PHOTOSTAT, MICROFILM, OR ANY OTEER MEANS, WITHOUT WRITTEN PERMISSION FROM T E E PUBLISHERS. ACADEMIC PRESS INC. 111 FIFTH AVEN~W NEW YORK3, N. Y. United Kingdm Edition Published by ACADEMIC PRESS INC. (LONDON) LTD. 17 OLD QUEENSTREET, LONDON, 8. W. 1 Librag of Congress Catalog Card Number: ~S-IlSSl PRINTED I N THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS HANS0. BOWENG, Swedish Forest Products Research Laboratory, Stockholm, Sweden B. CAPON, Department of Chemistry, Birkbeck College, University of London, London, England D. A. L. DAVIES, Microbiological Research Establishment, Porton, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England A. B. FOSTER, Department of Chemistry, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England D. HORTON, Chemistry Department, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio L. ROUGH, Department of Chemistry, The University, Bristol, England J. JONSEN,Department of Microbiology, Dental Faculty, The University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway S. LALAND, Department of Biochemistry, The University of Oslo,Oslo,Norway BENGT LINDBERG, Swedish Forest Products Research Laboratory, Stockholm, Sweden W. BROCK NEELY,Biochemical Research Laboratory, The Dour Chemical Company, Midland, Michigan W. G. OVEREND,Department of Chemistry, Birkbeck College, University of London, London, England J. E. PRIDDLE, Department of Chemistry, The University, Bristol, England DAVIDB. SPRINSON, Department of Biochemistry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York R. S. THEOBALD, Department of Chemistry, The University, Bristol, England J. M. WEBBER,Department of Chemistry, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England LOUISE. WISE, The Institute of Paper Chemistry, Appleton, Wisconsin V This Page Intentionally Left Blank PREFACE This volume completes fifteen issues in the series initiated in 1945. A r&um6 of the life and work of the late Emil Heuser is herein provided by L. E. Wise, one of his associates, in the U. S., in a career embracing both sides of the Atlantic. Capon and Overend comment on the general topic of the physicochemical properties of sugars, while Bouveng and Lindberg collate methods currently employed in the assignment of structure to pol