Interest in the chemistry of the chlorites has recently been stimulated by the commercial production of sodium chlorite. Until just a few months ago the literature afforded only meager information about the general chemistry of the chlorites, and knowledge of their chemical behavior with the carbohydrates was limited to the fact that sodium chlorite bleaches the obj ectionable colored substances in paper and cotton textile materials without weakening the cellulose fibers. A reagent possessing the desirable properties of sodium chlorite should find extensive use in the field of carbohydrate chemistry. To provide a guide for the application of the reagent and to determine how the characteristic groups and structures occurring in the carbohydrates react with chlorites, the authors undertook a systematic investigation of the reactions of chlorites with carbohydrate material of diverse character.
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Jeanes et al. (1941) studied this question.