Polysaccharides

Cellulose Chemistry and Technology

...constitutes one of the most complex studies dedicated to polysaccharides, provides, besides some basic knowledge...new information, obtained in the last decade...warmly recommended to both specialists and to all those – biologists, bioengineers, biochemists, researchers in organic chemistry and polymers, physicists – involved in this fascinating field of investigation.

Booknews

Presenting the major chemical and physical properties of polysaccharides and derivatives, this book describes conformational analysis techniques for oligosaccharides and polysaccharides, including x-ray diffraction and nuclear magnetic resonance. It also provides new computational methods for stimulating and calculating polysaccharide structure; details the applications of bacterial polysaccharides; introduces methods for the production of microbial polysaccharides; illustrates the functional and structural versatility of hemicelluloses, hyaluronic acid, agar, pectin, xanthan, cyclodextrins, and chitosan; and addresses the use of polysaccharides as membranes and surfactants and in cell and enzyme immobilization. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.