Cellulose sugar-formaldehyde reaction

The purpose of this chapter is to describe exploratory 13C-NMR studies of formaldehyde-cellulose reaction model systems. Solid state NMR spectra are still comparatively broad and do not reveal as much detail as solution spectra Ql). Furthermore, solid state NMR studies are still cumbersome, ana since no references are available on solid state studies of cellulose-formaldehyde interactions, we conducted an analysis of model systems for cellulose that are water soluble. This paper reports reactions of formaldehyde with methanol, ethyIenegIycoI, some seIect sugars, and ceI Iobi ose. 

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