Sugar Alcohols. VI

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Abstract
In general, the authors'' previous findings have been extended and confirmed, namely that the removal of a molecule of water from sugar alcohols with the formation of the oxide ring prevents their utilization by many organisms of the colon-aerogenes group. Polygalitol is an exception to this rule. The inability of the "intermediates" to ferment propylene glycol may lead to a method of distinguishing them from Escherichia and Aerobacter.