Glucose solubility

The solubility of shellfish muscle protein can be improved by reaction with glucose, solubility in 0.1 M sodium chloride reaching 83% when > 60% of lysine residues have been modified, but decreasing progressively once > 80% of residues have reacted.502... 

Acid hydrolysis is usually carried out with mineral acids at elevated temperatures. A portion of the cellulose reacts much faster than the remainder under these conditions. It is believed that the initial reaction occurs in the disordered regions and later extends to the ordered regions. The chain cleavage occurs and the products are glucose, soluble oligosaccharides, and an undissolved residue designated hydrocellulose. The weight of hydrocellulose is plotted... 

ICELAND MOSS, Lichen islandicus consists of the dried thallus of Cetraria islandica (L.) Acharius sensu latiore, family Parmeliaceae. Characteristic constituents include bitter-tasting lichen acids usnic acid gives the bitter-taste and has antibacterial effects. It also contains polysaccharides, which form a mucilage Lichenin, a linear cellulose-like polymer of D-glucose, is soluble in hot water, and on cooling it forms a gel. The other polysaccharide is isolichenin, a linear starch-like polymer of D-glucose, soluble in cold water. 

Notice that glucose is an aldehyde (it contains the —CHO group) with — OH groups on most of the carbon atoms. The many —OH groups make glucose soluble in water (and therefore in blood), which is important in glucose s role as the primary fuel of cells. Glucose is easily transported in the bloodstream and is soluble within the aqueous interior of a cell. 

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Particulate organics — soluble organics (glucose) Soluble organics VFAs VFAs (acetate) CH4, CO2 VFAs (acetate) — CFI4 Graef and Andrews (1974) Hili and Barth (1977)... 

D-fructose, C HijOo. Crystallizes in large needles m.p. 102-104 C. The most eommon ketose sugar. Combined with glucose it occurs as sucrose and rafftnose mixed with glucose it is present in fruit juices, honey and other products inulin and levan are built of fructose residues only. In natural products it is always in the furanose form, but it crystallizes in the pyranose form. It is very soluble in... 

Colourless crystals m.p. I25°C, soluble in water and alcohol. In aqueous solution forms equilibrium with its lactones. Gluconic acid is made by the oxidation of glucose by halogens, by electrolysis, by various moulds or by bacteria of the Acetobacter groups. 

Action of sodium hydroxide. Boil about 0 2 g. of glucose with 5 of 10% NaOH solution the mixture turns yellow, then brown, and emits the odour of caramel. Fructose, maltose, lactose and soluble starch behave similarly sucrose and ordinary starch do not give colorations. 

Salicin is a colourless crystalline substance, soluble in water. It does not reduce Fehling s solution nor does it give a coloration with ferric chloride. On hydrolysis with emulsin, glucose and salicyl alcohol are produced the former reduces Fehling s solution and the latter gives a violet coloration with ferric chloride. 

Vigorous oxidation of a monosaccharide (e.g., with dUute nitric acid) produces carboxyl groups at both ends of the chain. Thus galactose gives the sparingly soluble mucic acid glucose affords the soluble saccharic acid, which is best isolated as the sparingly soluble acid potassium salt. 

Saccharic acid. Use the filtrate A) from the above oxidation of lactose or, alternatively, employ the product obtained by evaporating 10 g. of glucose with 100 ml. of nitric acid, sp. gr. 1 15, until a syrupy residue remains and then dissolving in 30 ml. of water. Exactly neutralise at the boiling point with a concentrated solution of potassium carbonate, acidify with acetic acid, and concentrate again to a thick syrup. Upon the addition of 50 per cent, acetic acid, acid potassium saccharate sepa rates out. Filter at the pump and recrystaUise from a small quantity of hot water to remove the attendant oxahc acid. It is necessary to isolate the saccharic acid as the acid potassium salt since the acid is very soluble in water. The purity may be confirmed by conversion into the silver salt (Section 111,103) and determination of the silver content by ignition. 

Compounds of very high molecular weight frequently exhibit decreased solubility in inert solvents. Thus whilst glucose (CgHjcOj) and methyl... 

Polydextrose (Pfizer) is prepared by high temperature polymerization of glucose in the presence of a catalyst. It is a water-soluble, amorphous soUd used primarily as a hulking agent (52). Dried fmit, including pmnes, and dried plum, date, and grape juice is used for similar appUcations (53). 

Another group of compounds called oxygen scavengers retard oxidation by reducing the available molecular oxygen. Products in this group are water soluble and include erythorbic acid [89-65-6] C HgO, and its salt sodium erythorbate [6381-77-7] C HgO Na, ascorbyl pahnitate [137-66-6] 22 38 7 ascorbic acid [50-81-7] C HgO, glucose oxidase [9001-37-0] and sulfites (23). 

Of the water-soluble vitamins, intakes of nicotinic acid [59-67-6] on the order of 10 to 30 times the recommended daily allowance (RE)A) have been shown to cause flushing, headache, nausea, and moderate lowering of semm cholesterol with concurrent increases in semm glucose. Toxic levels of foHc acid [59-30-3] are ca 20 mg/d in infants, and probably approach 400 mg/d in adults. The body seems able to tolerate very large intakes of ascorbic acid [50-81-7] (vitamin C) without iH effect, but levels in excess of 9 g/d have been reported to cause increases in urinary oxaHc acid excretion. Urinary and blood uric acid also rise as a result of high intakes of ascorbic acid, and these factors may increase the tendency for formation of kidney or bladder stones. AH other water-soluble vitamins possess an even wider margin of safety and present no practical problem (82). 

Metformin. Metformin [657-24-9] (1,1-dimethylbiguanide), mol wt 129.17, forms crystals from propanol, mp 218—220°C, and is soluble in water and 95% ethanol, but practically insoluble in ether and chloroform. Metformin, an investigational dmg in the United States, does not increase basal or meal-stimulated insulin secretion. It lowers blood glucose levels in hyperglycemic patients with Type II diabetes but has no effect on blood glucose levels in normal subjects. It does not cause hypoglycemia. Successful metformin therapy usually is associated with no or some weight loss. 

Pure D-fmctose is a white, hygroscopic, crystalline substance and should not be confused with the high fmctose com symps (HFCS) which may contain 42—90 wt % fmctose and 23—29% water (8,9). The nonfmctose part of these symps is glucose (dextrose) plus small amounts of glucose oligomers and polymers. Fmctose is highly soluble ia water at 20°C it is 79% soluble, compared with only 47% for glucose and 67% for sucrose. 

Brewers and bakers dried yeasts are used as dietary supplements. They contribute some protein and trace minerals, and some B vitamins, but no vitamin C, vitamin B 2 or fat-soluble vitamins. The glucose tolerance factor (GTE) of yeast, chromium nicotinate, mediates the effect of insulin. It seems to be important for older persons who caimot synthesize GTE from inorganic dietary chromium. The ceU wall fraction of bakers yeast reduces cholesterol levels in rats fed a hypercholesteremic diet. 

Average number of ethoxyl groups per glucose unit Solubility... 

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