Although sodium xanthates of cellulose form the basis of the cellophane and viscose rayon industries and are of great commercial importance, no reliable information about the detailed chemical structure of these xanthates exists. A considerable amount of knowledge concerning the…

Over sixty years ago the first chemical investigations were reported on waste sulfite liquor from the pulping of wood, but despite a large volume of research in the intervening period, the sulfonation reaction and its products remain an intriguing unsolved…