Ascorbic Acid

Szent-Gyrgyi had isolated the chemical hexuronic acid from animal adrenal glands at the Mayo clinic. This was the last of the compound from animal sources, but later that year, Szent-Gyrgyi's group discovered that paprika pepper.In 1933, working with the then Assistant Director of Research Edmund Hirst and their research teams.the Nobel Prize for chemistry was awarded to Norman Haworth for his work in determining the structure of ascorbic acid.
Being derived from glucose, many animals are able to produce it, but humans require it as part of their nutrition.Quite unexpectedly, guinea pigs proved to be susceptible to scurvy when fed a diet similar to that of sailors who developed scurvy, and the food-factor of unknown chemical nature that guinea pigs required, was eventually called vitamin C.Ascorbic acid is a naturally occurring organic compound with antioxidant properties. the disease caused by a deficiency of vitamin C.
Synthesis and signalling properties are still under investigation.Sodium ascorbate and ascorbic acid are also used in swimming pools and spas to reduce high levels of both chlorine and bromine.To selectively oxidize only one of the six hydroxy groups in sorbitol, an enzymatic reaction is involved.The removal then causes an internal ester-forming reaction to yield ascorbic acid.

Ascorbic acid as food additives, a reductone, behaves as a vinylogous carboxylic acid where the electrons in the double bond. In other words, ascorbic acid can be considered an enol where the deprotonated form is a stabilized enolate.These compounds are water-soluble and thus cannot protect fats from oxidation: For this purpose, the fat-soluble esters of ascorbic acid with long-chain fatty acids.
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