Matthieu Fumagalli, Djamila Ouhab, Sonia Molina Boisseau, Laurent Heux
Centre de Recherches sur les Macromolécules Végétales (CERMAV-CNRS) , BP 53, F-38041 Grenoble Cedex 9, France, affiliated with the Université de Grenoble, member of the Institut de Chimie Moléculaire de Grenoble (ICMG) and member of the PolyNat Carnot Institute.
Biomacromolecules 2013 Sep 9Aqueous suspensions of microfibrillated cellulose obtained by a high pressure homogenization process were freeze-dried after solvent exchange into tert-butanol. The resulting aerogels, which displayed a remarkable open morphology with a surface area reaching 100 m(2)/g, were subjected to a gas-phase esterification with palmitoyl chloride. Under these conditions, variations of the reaction temperature from 100 to 200 °C, of the reaction time from 0.5 to 2 h, and of the initial quantity of reagent, led to the preparation of a library of cellulose palmitates with DS varying from zero to 2.36. These products were characterized by gravimetry, FTIR, and (13)C solid-state NMR spectroscopy. Of special interest were the cellulose palmitate samples of low DS in the range of 0.1-0.4, which corresponded to hydrophobic cellulose microfibrils exclusively esterified at their surface while keeping intact their inner structure.
Matthieu Fumagalli, Djamila Ouhab, Sonia Molina Boisseau, Laurent Heux. Versatile gas-phase reactions for surface to bulk esterification of cellulose microfibrils aerogels. Biomacromolecules. 2013 Sep 9;14(9):3246-55
PMID: 23889256
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