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The continuous dehydration of d-fructose is carried out under mild conditions, using the strongly acidic ion-exchange resin with a low divinylbenzene content as the catalyst and dimethyl sulfoxide as the solvent, to give 5-hydroxymethyl-2-furaldehyde in a high yield.
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Nakamura et al. (1980) studied this question.
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