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ReviewMarine drugs2010

Application of spectroscopic methods for structural analysis of chitin and chitosan.

Jolanta Kumirska, Małgorzata Czerwicka, Zbigniew Kaczyński, Anna Bychowska, Krzysztof Brzozowski, Jorg Thöming, Piotr Stepnowski

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Review in Marine drugs, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 181 papers.

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181 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Jolanta KumirskaFaculty of Chemistry, University of Gdansk, Sobieskiego 18/19, PL-80-952 Gdansk, Poland. kumirska@chem.univ.gda.pl
Małgorzata Czerwicka
Zbigniew Kaczyński
Anna Bychowska
Krzysztof Brzozowski
Jorg Thöming
Piotr Stepnowski

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chitin, the second most important natural polymer in the world, and its N-deacetylated derivative chitosan, have been identified as versatile biopolymers for a broad range of applications in medicine, agriculture and the food industry. Two of the main reasons for this are firstly the unique chemical, physicochemical and biological properties of chitin and chitosan, and secondly the unlimited supply of raw materials for their production. These polymers exhibit widely differing physicochemical properties depending on the chitin source and the conditions of chitosan production. The presence of reactive functional groups as well as the polysaccharide nature of these biopolymers enables them to undergo diverse chemical modifications. A complete chemical and physicochemical characterization of chitin, chitosan and their derivatives is not possible without using spectroscopic techniques. This review focuses on the application of spectroscopic methods for the structural analysis of these compounds.

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ChitinChitosanMagnetic Resonance ImagingMass SpectrometryMolecular StructureSpectroscopy, Fourier Transform InfraredSpectrum AnalysisChitinChitosanchemical modificationchitinchitosanphysicochemical parametersstructural analysis using spectroscopic techniques

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PMID20559489
PMCPMC2885081

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