Chemical stains that develop on commercial woods are
problems of great economic importance. The polyphenol
oxidases catalyze the oxidation of the phenolics that
naturally exist in plants to quinones when the cell structure is disrupted. The quinones produced are further
oxidized and polymerized to melanin, the pigment which is
responsible...
Douglas-fir bark was extracted with n-hexane yielding a light colored, "wax-like" solid as the n-hexane soluble fraction. The chemical constituents of this n-hexane soluble fraction were partially resolved by column chromatography using Silica Gel G as stationary phase and chloroform-n-hexane (3:1 v/v) as developing solvent. Several bands were observed under...
Douglas-fir bark was extracted with n-hexane. A light-colored
"wax-like" solid was recovered from the extract by evaporation of
the solvent. Chemically intact sterol esters and ferulic acid esters
were isolated from the "wax" without saponification or degradation
as had been necessary in former investigations. The characterization
of the intact esters...
Methanolic extracts of the dormant Douglas-fir shoots (buds, leaves, and stems) were fractionated by solvent partitioning (sodium bicarbonate-diethyl ether). The acidic portion of the extract was subjected to column (Sephadex LH-2O, Silica Gel and Polyvinylpyrrolidone), preparative thick-layer and gas-liquid chromatography.
Fractions collected from chromatographic separations were collected and tested for...
The objectives of this study were to 1) characterize the layering in the wall of the Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga. menziesii (Mirb. ) Franco) phellem cell, 2) determine the pitting present in this cell wall and 3) determine what compounds are present in the middle lamella of this cell. To accomplish the...
Creep in wood has been observed since 1833 but only recently
has it been studied quantitatively. The aim of this paper is to study
the time-dependent deflections of Douglas fir, Coast Region beams
in bending and shear modes. The general method of approach used is
that of large scale observation....