ADVANCES IN CHEMISTRY SERIES 207 The Chemistry of Solid Wood Downloaded via 148.251.232.83 on September 3, 2018 at 00:33:44 (UTC). See https://pubs.acs.org/sharingguidelines for options on how to legitimately share published articles. Roger Rowell, EDITOR U.S. Department of Agriculture Based on a short course and symposium sponsored by the Division of Cellulose, Paper, and Textile Chemistry at the 185th Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Seattle, Washington, March 20-25, 1983 American Chemical Society, Washington, D.C. 1984
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data The chemistry of solid wood. (Advances in chemistry series, ISSN 0065-2393; 207) "Based on a symposium sponsored by the Division of Cellulose, Paper, and Textile at the 185th Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Seattle, Washington, March 20-25, 1983." Includes bibliographies and indexes. 1. Wood Composition Congresses. I. Rowell, Roger M. II. American Chemical Society. Cellulose, Paper, and Textile Division. III. Series. QD1.A355 no. 207 [TA419.A1] 540s [674'.134] 83-22451 ISBN 0-8412-0796-8 Copyright 1984 American Chemical Society All Rights Reserved. The appearance of the code at the bottom of the first page of each chapter in this volume indicates the copyright owner's consent that reprographic copies of the chapter may be made for personal or internal use or for the personal or internal use of specific clients. This consent is given on the condition, however, that the copier pay the stated per copy fee through the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc., 21 Congress Street, Salem, MA 01970, for copying beyond that permitted by Sections 107 or 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law. This consent does not extend to copying or transmission by any means graphic or electronic for any other purpose, such as for general distribution, for advertis -ing or promotional purposes, for creating a new collective work, for resale, or for information storage and retrieval systems. The copying fee for each chapter is indicated in the code at the bottom of the first page of the chapter. The citation of trade names and/or names of manufacturers in this publication is not to be construed as an endorsement or as approval by ACS of the commercial products or services referenced herein; nor should the mere reference herein to any drawing, specification, chemical process, or other data be regarded as a license or as a conveyance of any right or permission, to the holder, reader, or any other person or corporation, to manufacture, reproduce, use, or sell any patented invention or copyrighted work that may in any way be related thereto. Registered names, trademarks, etc., used in this publication, even without specific indication thereof, are not to be considered unprotected by law. PRINTEDINTHEUNITEDSTATESOFAMERICA
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ABOUT THE EDITOR ROGER M. ROWELL is a carbohydrate chemist at the Forest Products Laboratory, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service in Madison, Wisconsin. His research involves the enhancement of wood properties through the chemical modification of wood cell walls. His research has included cooperative studies in the United States and in Australia, China, Great Britain, and Sweden. In 1967 he was appointed an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, England. In September 1983, he was invited to spend four months at Sweden's Chalmers University of Technology to establish a research program on the chemical modification of wood. He currently serves as an adjunct professor in the forestry department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In addition to authoring more than 60 publications and receiving two patents, Rowell has presented numerous papers at national and international scientific meetings, organized national and international symposia, and has been active in consulting and technology transfer of his research. Rowell is a member of the Sigma Xi Honorary Research Society and the American Chemical Society where he served as chairman of the Cellulose, Paper, and Textile Division in 1980. Rowell received his B.S. degree in math and chemistry in 1961 from Southwestern College in Kansas. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in biochemistry from Purdue University in 1963 and 1965, respectively. ν