Studies on the Reduction of Sugars

Part III. The Reduction in Tetrahydrofurfurylalcohol

Abstract

It was found that tetrahydrofurfurylalcohol could dissolve glucose about 20%. Tetrahydrofurfurylalcohol was treated as cyclohexanol in the previous works. Namely glucose was reduced by tetrahydrofurfurylalcohol in the presence of Raney nickel, and also catalitically hydrogenated in tetrahydrofurfurylalcohol in the presence of Raney nickel and hydrogen under atmospheric pressure. By these methods sorbitol was isolated and identified.