Several workers have reduced acidic polysaccharides for structural studies,
for sorption studies, and for studies on chemical reactivity. All these investigators
have used reduction procedures which have not been extensively studied and do not completely reduce the acidic groups. In addition, it is not known to what extent the other functional groups such as esters and hemiacetal are reduced. The goal of the present study is to obtain a further understanding of the reduction with both a Lewis acid, diborane, and a Lewis base, lithium
borohydride, by comparison of the percent reduction of the functional groups
on an acidic polysaccharide. Alginic acid from the stipes of the brown algae Laminaria hyperborea was selected as the acidic polysaccharide for study.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:GATECH/oai:smartech.gatech.edu:1853/5667 |
| Date | 01 January 1967 |
| Creators | Manning, James Harvey |
| Publisher | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Source Sets | Georgia Tech Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Dissertation |
| Format | 2904869 bytes, application/pdf |
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