Amylose aqueous

Com and rice starches have been oxidized and subsequently cyanoethylated (97). As molecular size decreases due to degradation during oxidation, the degree of cyanoethylation increases. The derivatized starch shows pseudoplastic flow in water dispersion at higher levels of cyanoethylation the flow is thixotropic. Com and rice starches have been oxidized and subsequently carboxymethylated (98). Such derivatives are superior in the production of textile sizes. Potato starch has been oxidized with neutral aqueous bromine and fully chemically (99) and physically (100) characterized. Amylose is more sensitive to bromine oxidation than amylopectin and oxidation causes a decrease in both gelatinization temperature range and gelatinization enthalpy. 

Starch acetates may have low or high DS. The industrial importance of low DS acetates results from their abiUty to stabilize aqueous polymer sols. Low DS acetates inhibit association of amylose polymers and reduce the association of the longer outer chains of amylopectin. These properties are important in food appHcations. Highly derivatized starches (DS 2—3) are useful because of their solubiHty in organic solvents and abiHty to form films and fibers. 

An aqueous dispersion of an unmodified starch containing amylose wiU gradually form an insoluble precipitate through association of linear segments. This process is called retrogradation or set-back. 

Amylose [9005-82-7] (C Hio05) (/br use in iodine complex formation). Amylopectin was removed from impure amylose by dispersing in aqueous 15% pyridine at 80-90 (concn 0.6-0.7%) and leaving the soln stand at 44-45° for 7 days. The ppte was re-dispersed and recrystd during 5 days. After a further dispersion in 15% pyridine, it was cooled to 45°, allowed to stand at this temperature for 12hours, then eooled... 

The Action of Gamma-radiation on Dilute Aqueous Solutions of Amylose, E. J. Bourne, M. Stacey, and G. Vaughan, Chem. Ind. (London), (1956) 573-574. 

The chromatogram zones colored by iodine can be fixed later by treatment with a 0.5-1 Vo aqueous starch (amylose) solution. This yields the well known, deep blue iodine-starch inclusion complex which is stable over a prolonged period. This reaction... 

An aqueous 1 % starch (amylose) spray can be sprayed on later to intensify the color contrast between the chromatogram zones and the layer background the well known blue-colored iodine starch inclusion complexes are formed. This later treatment with starch solution should only be carried out when the iodine excess has evaporated from the layer background so that only traces of iodine remain in the chromatogram zones. Otherwise the whole chromatogram will be colored dark blue (test at a corner of the chromatogram ). 

Extensive studies have been performed on the (1- 6)-)8-D-glucan (pustulan) and the (l- 4)-a-D-glucan (amylose). These are linear polysaccharides that may exist as helical polymers in aqueous solution, as demonstrated by c.d. spectroscopy. Characteristic of the helical structure of these glucans is a negative band at 182 nm, a crossover at 177 nm, and a more intensely positive band at shorter wavelengths (see Figs. 8 and 9). 

Lewis and Johnson compared the c.d. spectra of amylose and cyclomaltohexaose, and showed that amylose is helical in aqueous solution. Cyclomaltohexaose is chromophorically equivalent to amylose, and it is known to assume a pseudohelix having zero pitch, and thus, no helical chirality. The conformation of amylose is clearly different from that of cyclomaltohexaose, as their c.d. spectra are very different (see Fig. 9). The difference in conformation was considered to be a matter of helical chirality. To confirm this, these workers measured the c.d. spectrum of an amylose-1-butanol complex presumed to have the V-form of helical conformation with the 1-butanol complexed in the channel of the helix. The c.d. spectrum of the complex is identical to that of amylose in aqueous solution. 

Amylose and dextran have been studied in aqueous solution as the xanthate derivatives. Dextran xanthate has no observable c.d., but amylose xanthate in aqueous solution has a complex c.d. that indicates an organized structure. 

Addition of an aqueous solution of PEG to a saturated aqueous solution of a-CD at room temperature did not lead to complex formation unless the average molecular weight of PEG exceeded 200 [46]. Moreover, carbohydrate polymers such as dextran and pullulan failed to precipitate complexes with PEG, and the same was true for amylose, glucose, methyl glucose, maltose, maltotriose, cyclodextrin derivatives, such as glucosyl-a-CD and maltosyl-a-CD, and water-soluble polymers of a-CD crosslinked by epichlorohydrin. These facts suggested to Harada et al. the direction for further research. 

Methods which can be used to determine the size and shape of polysaccharides have been reviewed.107 (A critical survey of these has recently been given by Sadron108 and by Ogston.109) Special problems exist in the case of the undegraded starch components. In view of the branched nature of amylopectin and the large size of the amylose molecule, chemical methods of estimating size are inadequate, and it is questionable whether results are valid.38 The free components may also aggregate in aqueous solution. Study of derivatives is therefore more convenient, and the preparation of these is an essential preliminary to estimations of molecular size. 

Meyer31 has separated maize and potato amyloses into two fractions each, by (1) aqueous leaching, followed by (2) dissolution and precipitation of the remainder. His results of colorimetric, end-group determinations of size were ... 

The anions of CDs may also function as simple basic catalysts towards acidic substrates included in their cavities. Such was observed by Daffe and Fastrez (1983) who studied the deprotonation and hydrolysis of oxazolones in basic media containing CDs. Also, in a paper dealing mainly with catalysis by amylose, it was noted that CDs catalyse the deprotonation of long chain /3-keto esters in basic aqueous DMSO (Cheng et al., 1985) no saturation kinetics were found for CDs, indicating weak substrate binding under the conditions used. 

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