29 Alcohols, Glycols and Compounds Related to Sugars 



Also reported formed from glucose by two yeasts, An- 

 thomijces renkaufi and Amphierna rubra: 

 J. Gruss, Jahrb. luiss. Botan. 66 109 (1926). 



30 meso-Inositol, C^HjoOo (dihydrate), colorless crystals, m.p. 218° 

 (anhydrous) 250-253°. 



H OH 



Pseudomonas fluorescens, Serratia marcescens, Proteus 

 vulgaris, Clostridium butylicum, yeasts 



Yields of 2700-5000 /xg. per gram of dry cell weight are 

 obtained in brewers' yeast. 



Inositol Literature Briefs Tech. Bull. Y3-101, Corn Products 

 Refining Co., 1953, 44 pp. (A bibliography with titles and 

 abstracts) 



31 D-Gluconic Acid, CgHioO^, colorless syrup, cannot be isolated, but 

 readily forms (principally) the 8-lactone, white crystals, 

 m.p. 153°, [aU +63.5° -^ +6.2° (elm water). 



COOH 



HCOH 



HOCH 



I 

 HCOH 



I 

 HCOH 



CH2OH 



Wide variety of mold species, acetobacter species, etc. 



Yields 95% with Aspergillus niger. 



A. J. Mayer, E. J. Umberger and J. J. Stubbs, Ind. Eng. 

 Chem. 32 1379 (1940). 



Leland A. Underkofier and Richard J. Hickey, "Industrial 

 Fermentations," Chemical Publishing Co., Inc., New York, 

 N. Y., 1954 Vol. I, L. A. Underkofier, Gluconic acid, chap. 14, 

 pp. 446-469. 



