Amylopectin nitrate

Nitrotoluenes, Van No strand, NY(1918) 2)M.Kostevitch, "Tarry Matter of Alpha Trinitrotoluene, Part II, Imprd Art Vol-taire,P aris( 1927), 8 3)Sidgwick( 19 37), 259 et seq 4)Davis(1943), 136-7, 147, 149-51 170-1 5>negering( 1950), 139 seq 6) Dept of the Army TM 9-1910( 1955), 146 Alkalies, Action on Nitric Esters. Organic nitrates in general are readily saponified by alkaline solns. A simple metathetical reaction to yield the alkali nitrate and alcohol does not take place instead, as a result of simultaneous oxidation and reduction, alkali nitrite and a variety of products are formed depending on the conditions of the reaction. The resistance of different nitric esters to alkalies varies considerably. Thus, starch nitrate is decomposed much more slowly than cellulose nitrate and amylopectin nitrate still more alowly... 

In a later paper(Ref 5), Ashford et al described an amylopectin nitrate having N= 13.25% which was attacked by hot alkali to a smaller degree than amylose nitrate Refs l)Beil — not found 2)Hackh(1944),... 

In the later paper(Ref 6), Ashford et al described amylose nitrate with N=13.25%. Hot alkali attacked it slightly more than amylopectin nitrate... 

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