AbstractsChemistry

Note: Missing title page. Several years ago the Wood Chemistry Committee of the Technical Section, Canadian Pulp and Paper Association, observed that chlorine dioxide was becoming of importance as a bleaching agent for pulps, and that more detailed knowledge concerning its chemical action on the lignin of wood was desirable. This recommendation led to a thesis by N. Levitin on the oxidation of Black Spruce periodate lignin with aqueous chlorine dioxide under various conditions.