Issue 4, 2011
From the journal:

Polymer Chemistry

Chemical modification of pectin: environmental friendly process for new potential material development

Luca Monfregola,a   Marilisa Leone,a   Vittoria Vittoria,b   Pietro Amodeoc  and  Stefania De Luca*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Institute of Biostructures and Bioimages, National Research Council, Naples, Italy
E-mail: stefania.deluca@cnr.it
Fax: +39 0812536642
Tel: +39 0812536643

b Department of Chemical and Food Engineering, University of Salerno, Fisciano (SA), Italy

c Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry, National Research Council, Pozzuoli (NA), Italy

Abstract

Chemical modification of pectin was successfully accomplished as a solvent free process. It involved acylation of alcoholic functions of the polysaccharide by using several fatty acid anhydrides. The reaction was performed by simply mixing the reagents with a catalytic amount of the inorganic base potassium carbonate and heating the obtained mixture at a temperature of 160 °C. The desired esters were fully characterized by NMR and FT-IR spectroscopy.

Graphical abstract: Chemical modification of pectin: environmental friendly process for new potential material development

About
Cited by
Related
Download options Please wait...

Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C0PY00341G
Article type
Communication
Submitted
14 Oct 2010
Accepted
30 Jan 2011
First published
14 Feb 2011

Polym. Chem., 2011,2, 800-804

Permissions

Request permissions

Chemical modification of pectin: environmental friendly process for new potential material development

L. Monfregola, M. Leone, V. Vittoria, P. Amodeo and S. De Luca, Polym. Chem., 2011, 2, 800 DOI: 10.1039/C0PY00341G

To request permission to reproduce material from this article, please go to the Copyright Clearance Center request page.

If you are an author contributing to an RSC publication, you do not need to request permission provided correct acknowledgement is given.

If you are the author of this article, you do not need to request permission to reproduce figures and diagrams provided correct acknowledgement is given. If you want to reproduce the whole article in a third-party publication (excluding your thesis/dissertation for which permission is not required) please go to the Copyright Clearance Center request page.

Read more about how to correctly acknowledge RSC content.

Social activity

Spotlight

Advertisements