Abstract:
A method for the preparation of a glucose polymer having an ion-exchanging ability comprises the steps of drying a mixed aqueous solution containing a raw glucose polymer and a polyvalent carboxylic acid to thus form a uniform powdery mixture and then subjecting the powdery mixture to a heat treatment. The method of the present invention can ensure the achievement of a high reaction efficiency, is economically advantageous since it never requires the use of any expensive catalyst and does not require the use of any complicated step for the removal of impurities. The glucose polymer prepared by the method of the present invention is biodegradable and can be used in, for instance, various foods and/or builders.
Abstract:
Novel arylisothiocyanate compounds are described that are useful for activating alcohol-containing macromolecules, for example polyethyleneglycols and cellulose, for covalent linkage to amino-groups of biomolecules, for example polypeptides such as antibodies, enzymes, and proteins.
Abstract:
A thermoplastic cellulose derivative composition of the present invention contains, as a main component, a cellulose ester having an aliphatic polyester side chain having a repeat unit having 2 to 5 carbon atoms, wherein a rate of heating loss at 200null C. is 5 wt % or less, a melt viscosity at 200null C. and 1000 secnull1 is 50 to 300 Panullsec, and a melt tension at the time of take-up at 200null C. and 100 m/min is 0.1 to 40 mN. The present invention can provide excellent fiber products by melt spinning of the composition.
Abstract:
The present invention is directed to particulate drug carriers, such as vesicles, formed from polysaccharide derivatives. A polysaccharide bearing at least one non-ionic hydrophilic group attached to an individual monosaccharide unit is hydrophobised to form a derivative bearing at least one long chain alkyl residue. Particle formation is then induced in the presence of cholesterol. The particles are suited for entrapment or conjugation of pharmaceutically active ingredients.
Abstract:
Cellulose mixed esters are disclosed having low molecular weights and low degrees of polymerization. These new cellulose mixed esters include cellulose acetate propionate and cellulose acetate butyrate. The esters exhibit solubility in a wide range of organic solvents with minimal viscosity increase, are compatible with a wide variety of resins, and are useful in coatings and inks compositions as binder resins and rheology modifiers.
Abstract:
Novel arylisothiocyanate compounds are described that are useful for activating alcohol-containing macromolecules, for example polyethyleneglycols and cellulose, for covalent linkage to amino-groups of biomolecules, for example polypeptides such as antibodies, enzymes, and proteins.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to fluorinated biopolymer and polymer derivatives useful as imaging probes, diagnostic agents and contrast agents and to imaging methods employing the fluorinated biopolymers and polymers.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to thermoplastic, water-soluble cellulose derivatives of the general formula 1 in which Cell is the substituted residue of a hydroxyl group on the cellulose chain, A is hydrogen or a hydroxycarboxylic acid residue, B is an ether residue (nullEnullO)n, in which n is 1 to 4, the molar degree of substitution by hydroxycarboxylic acid being between 0 and 1 and the molar degree of substitution of the ether being greater than or equal to 3, E represents C1-C6-alkyl.
Abstract:
A regioselectively substituted member selected from the group consisting of oligo-saccharide ester and polysaccharide ester is disclosed. The ester has a partial average degree of substitution AS at the C2 position of its anhydroglucose unit of at least 90% relative to the total AS. Also disclosed is a method of producing the regioselectively substituted ester. The method entails reacting in the presence of a catalyst a dissolved or a highly swollen oligo-saccharide or polysaccharide with an esterification reagent.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a separating agent for enantiomeric isomers having no large UV absorption as represented by an aromatic group and having high asymmetric recognizability, particularly, high asymmetric recognizability in an aqueous mobile phase, or a separating agent for enantiomeric isomers comprising a polysaccharide alicyclic ester derivative free from aromatic group as an effective component.