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furfural-yielding carbohydrates. They conclude that raw cotton contains no appreciable quantity of pentosane. FOOTNOTES: [8] This paper appears during the printing of the author's original MS. [9] This paper appears during the printing of the author's original MS. SECTION VI. THE LIGNOCELLULOSES (p. 131) ~Lignocellulose Esters.~--By a fuller study of the ester reactions of the normal celluloses we have been able to throw some light on the constitutional problems involved; and we have extended the investigations to the jute fibre as a type of the lignocelluloses, from the results of which we get a clearer idea of the relationships of the constituent groups. Taking the empirical expression for the complex, i.e. the entire lignocellulose, the formula C_{12}H_{18}O_{9}, we shall be able to compare the ester derivatives with those of the celluloses, which we have also referred to a C_{12} unit. But we shall require also to deal with the constituent groups of the complex, which for the purposes of this discussion may be regarded as (a) a cellulose of normal characteristics--cellulose alpha; (b) a cellulose yielding furfural on boiling with condensing acids--cellulose beta; and (c) a much condensed, and in part benzenoid, group which we may continue to term the lig_none_ group. The latter has been specially examined with regard to its proportion of OH groups, as a necessary preliminary to the investigation of esters, in producing which the entire complex is employed. It will be shown that the ester groups can be actually localised in various ways, as in the main entering the cellulose residues alpha and beta. But that the lignone group takes little part in the reactions may be generally concluded on the evidence of its non-reactivity as an isolated derivative, (1) By chlorination, &c. it is isolated in the form of an amorphous body, but of constant composition, represented by the formula C_{19}H_{18}Cl_{4}O_{9}. This compound, soluble in acetic anhydride, was boiled with it for six hours after adding fused sodium acetate, and the product separated by pouring into water. The dilute acid filtered from the product contained no hydrochloric acid nor by-products of action. The product showed an increase of weight of 7.5 p.ct. For one acetyl per 1 mol. C_{19}H_{18}Cl_{4}O the calculated increase is 8.0 p.ct. It is evident from the nature of the derivative that this result cannot be further verified by the usu
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