Erythrose was first isolated in 1849 from rhubarb by the French pharmacist Louis Feux Joseph Garot (1798-1869),[4] and was named as such because of its red hue in the presence of alkali metals (ἐρυθρός, "red").[5][6]
^Obituary of Garot (1869)Journal de pharmacie et de chimie, 4th series,9 : 472-473.
^Garot (1850)"De la matière colorante rouge des rhubarbes exotiques et indigènes et de son application (comme matière colorante) aux arts et à la pharmacie" (On the red coloring material of exotic and indigenous rhubarb and on its application (as a coloring material) in the arts and in pharmacy),Journal de Pharmacie et de Chimie, 3rd series,17 : 5-19. Erythrose is named on p. 10:"Celui que je propose, sans y attacher toutefois la moindre importance, est celui d'érythrose, du verbe grec 'ερυθραινω, rougir (1)." (The one [i.e., name] that I propose, without attaching any importance to it, is that oferythrose, from the Greek verb ερυθραινω, to redden (1).)
^Wells, David Ames; Cross, Charles Robert; Bliss, George; Trowbridge, John; Nichols, William Ripley; Kneeland, Samuel (1851).Annual of Scientific Discovery. Boston: Gould, Kendall, and Lincoln. p. 211. Retrieved11 December 2014.erythrose discovery.
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