The Chemistry of Solid Wood, Copyright, Advances in Chemistry

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ADVANCES IN CHEMISTRY SERIES 207

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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 M e e t i n g of the American C h e m i c a l Society, Seattle, Washington, M a r c h 2 0 - 2 5 , 1983

American Chemical Society, Washington, D.C. 1984

In The Chemistry of Solid Wood; Rowell, R.; Advances in Chemistry; American Chemical Society: Washington, DC, 1984.

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data T h e chemistry o f solid w o o d . (Advances i n chemistry series, ISSN 0 0 6 5 - 2 3 9 3 ; 2 0 7 ) " B a s e d o n a symposium sponsored by the Division o f Cellulose, Paper, and Textile at the 185th M e e t i n g o f the A m e r i c a n C h e m i c a l Society, Seattle, Washington, M a r c h 2 0 - 2 5 , 1983." Includes bibliographies and indexes.

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1. W o o d — C o m p o s i t i o n — C o n g r e s s e s . I. R o w e l l , Roger M . II. A m e r i c a n C h e m i c a l Society. Cellulose, Paper, and T e x t i l e Division. III. Series. QD1.A355 no. 207 540s [674'.134] ISBN 0 - 8 4 1 2 - 0 7 9 6 - 8

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Advances in Chemistry Series M. Joan Comstock, Series Editor

Advisory Board Robert Baker U.S. Geological Survey

Geoffrey D. Parfitt Carnegie-Mellon University

Martin L. Gorbaty Exxon Research and Engineering Co.

Theodore Provder Glidden Coatings and Resins

Herbert D. Kaesz University of California—Los Angeles

James C. Randall Phillips Petroleum Company

Rudolph J. Marcus Office of Naval Research

Charles N. Satterfield Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Marvin Margoshes Technicon Instruments Corporation

Dennis Schuetzle Ford Motor Company Research Laboratory

Donald E. Moreland USDA, Agricultural Research Service W. H. Norton J. T. Baker Chemical Company Robert Ory USDA, Southern Regional Research Center

Davis L. Temple, Jr. Mead Johnson Charles S. Tuesday General Motors Research Laboratory C. Grant Willson IBM Research Department

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FOREWORD Downloaded by 86.149.166.217 on May 8, 2014 | http://pubs.acs.org Publication Date: May 5, 1984 | doi: 10.1021/ba-1984-0207.fw001

ADVANCES

IN

CHEMISTRY

SERIES

was

founded

in

1949

by

the

A m e r i c a n C h e m i c a l S o c i e t y as a n o u t l e t f o r s y m p o s i a a n d c o l l e c t i o n s o f d a t a in s p e c i a l areas o f t o p i c a l interest t h a t c o u l d n o t b e a c c o m m o d a t e d in t h e Society's j o u r n a l s . I t p r o v i d e s a m e d i u m for symposia that w o u l d otherwise b e fragmented, t h e i r p a p e r s d i s t r i b u t e d a m o n g several journals o r n o t p u b ­ l i s h e d at all. P a p e r s a r e r e v i e w e d c r i t i c a l l y a c c o r d i n g t o A C S e d i t o r i a l standards a n d r e c e i v e t h e c a r e f u l a t t e n t i o n a n d p r o c ­ essing c h a r a c t e r i s t i c of ACS p u b l i c a t i o n s . ADVANCES

IN

CHEMISTRY

SERIES

V o l u m e s in t h e

maintain the integrity

of

the

s y m p o s i a o n which t h e y a r e b a s e d ; h o w e v e r , v e r b a t i m r e p r o ­ ductions of previously p u b l i s h e d papers

are not

accepted.

P a p e r s m a y include reports o f r e s e a r c h as well as r e v i e w s since s y m p o s i a m a y e m b r a c e b o t h types of p r e s e n t a t i o n .

In The Chemistry of Solid Wood; Rowell, R.; Advances in Chemistry; American Chemical Society: Washington, DC, 1984.

ABOUT THE EDITOR ROGER

M.

is a

ROWELL chemist tory,

carbohydrate

at the Forest P r o d u c t s

U.S. Department

of

Labora­

Agriculture,

Forest S e r v i c e i n M a d i s o n , W i s c o n s i n . H i s research

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wood

involves

properties

modification

of

the

enhancement

through wood

the

cell

of

chemical

walls.

His

r e s e a r c h has i n c l u d e d c o o p e r a t i v e studies in

the

China,

U n i t e d States

and

Great

and

Britain,

in

Australia,

Sweden.

In

1967 h e w a s a p p o i n t e d a n H o n o r a r y R e s e a r c h F e l l o w at the U n i v e r s i t y of B i r m i n g h a m , E n g l a n d . In September

1983, h e w a s i n v i t e d to s p e n d

f o u r m o n t h s at S w e d e n ' s C h a l m e r s U n i v e r s i t y o f T e c h n o l o g y to lish a r e s e a r c h p r o g r a m

o n the c h e m i c a l m o d i f i c a t i o n

of

estab­

wood.

He

c u r r e n t l y serves as a n a d j u n c t p r o f e s s o r i n the f o r e s t r y d e p a r t m e n t

at

the U n i v e r s i t y o f W i s c o n s i n - M a d i s o n . I n a d d i t i o n to a u t h o r i n g m o r e t h a n 60 p u b l i c a t i o n s a n d r e c e i v i n g t w o patents, R o w e l l has p r e s e n t e d

n u m e r o u s p a p e r s at n a t i o n a l a n d i n t e r ­

national scientific meetings, organized national a n d international s y m p o ­ sia, a n d has b e e n a c t i v e i n c o n s u l t i n g a n d t e c h n o l o g y t r a n s f e r o f his research. R o w e l l is a m e m b e r o f the S i g m a X i H o n o r a r y R e s e a r c h S o c i e t y a n d the A m e r i c a n C h e m i c a l S o c i e t y w h e r e h e s e r v e d as c h a i r m a n o f

the

C e l l u l o s e , P a p e r , a n d T e x t i l e D i v i s i o n i n 1980. R o w e l l r e c e i v e d his B . S . d e g r e e i n m a t h a n d c h e m i s t r y i n 1961 Southwestern

College

in Kansas. H e received

from

his M . S . a n d P h . D . i n

b i o c h e m i s t r y f r o m P u r d u e U n i v e r s i t y i n 1963 a n d 1965, r e s p e c t i v e l y .

ν

In The Chemistry of Solid Wood; Rowell, R.; Advances in Chemistry; American Chemical Society: Washington, DC, 1984.