The ~nethyl glucoside tetranitrates reacted vigorously a t room temperature with a n escess of hydroxylamine base dissolved in anhydrous pyridine. Gas consisting of 91% nitrogen and anlounti~lg to 1.25 to 1.3 moles per mole was evolved within 20 min. and only n little more during the next 12 hr. Approximately 1.35 moles of nitrate groups in the original tetranitrate had been replaced by hydrosyl groups, for the most part a t least without Walden inversions or other change, because hydrogenation of the sirupy product reduced it in more than 80% yield to crystallille nlethyl glucoside. The product from methyl-B-glucoside tetranitrate consisted of the 2,3,G-trinitrate (2S%), the 3,G-dinitrate (17%), and a n unidentified trinitrate (8%) which might have been a mixture.The structures of the first two compounds were confirmed by preparing the fully methylated derivatives, denitrating the latter, and identifying the resulting known, partly methylated methyl-p-glucosides. New syntheses of methyl-pglucoside-3,6-dinitrate, methyl 2,4-din~ethyl-B-glucoside, and methyl-4-methyl-B-glucoside were found.