ADVANCES IN CHEMISTRY SERIES 207
The Chemistry of Solid Wood 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
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.
