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Structure Elucidation of Hydroxypropyl Cellulose Homogenously Prepared from NaOH/Urea Aqueous Solution
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HaiSong Qi1,2 1. South China University of Technology, School of Light Industry and Engineering, Guangzhou,Guangdong Province, 510640, China
2. Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden, Hohe Str. 6, D-01069 Dresden, Germany 
Tao Song1 1. South China University of Technology, School of Light Industry and Engineering, Guangzhou,Guangdong Province, 510640, China 
Fachuang Lu1,* 1. South China University of Technology, School of Light Industry and Engineering, Guangzhou,Guangdong Province, 510640, China 
 
Abstract:Hydroxypropyl celluloses (HPC) were homogenously synthesized by the reaction of cellulose with propylene oxide in NaOH/urea aqueous solution. Water-soluble HPC with molar degree of substitution (MSNMR) in the range of 0.52~0.78 was prepared from microcrystalline cellulose, cotton linters, and spruce sulfite pulp. The structure of the HPC samples was characterized by means of FT-IR, NMR, gas chromatography (GC), and size exclusion chroma-tography (SEC) analyses. Three types of cellulose samples with different molecular weights were found to dissolve well in the NaOH/urea solvent with no obvious differences in reactivity and regioselectivity. The relative reactivity of hydroxyl groups in the glycosyl unit was in the following order: O-6>O-2>O-3. In addition, the results of the study indicated that the tandem reaction during hydroxypropylation could be ignored.
keywords:hydroxypropyl cellulose  NaOH/urea aqueous solution  structure  homogenous synthesis  gas chromatography analysis
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