Saccharides In Aqueous Solutions

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INTRODUCTION Study on Interactions of Saccharides in Aqueous Solutions. The saccharides and their derivatives being important organic compounds in life processes, participate in many biological processes such as the macromolecular basis of lubricants (synovial fluids and mucous gels), signaling, cell-cell recognition (immune response), antiproteolytic preservants (in glycoproteins), protective agents (glycopeptides of Antarctic fish), protein/enzyme stability and so forth.Ref. For example, L-fucose (deoxyhexose) residues in the carbohydrate chains of glycoconjugates act as cell-cell recognition sites and as important antigenic determinants such as blood group antigens. Fucosylation is one of the most important oligosaccharide modifications…show more content…
Among many saccharides, trehalose is distinguished by the significantly high glass transition temperature, Tg in aqueous solutions and is more effective as a protective agent of anhydrophobic organisms. Moreover, it is also well recognized that rheological properties play a role in process design, evaluation and modelling. In fact rheological data are required as an indicator of product quality, for calculation in any process involving fluid flow (e.g. pump sizing, extraction, filtration, extrusion, purification) and for the analyses of flow conditions in food processes such as pasteurization, evaporation, drying and aseptic processing. The concentration and the temperature have an important influence on the flow behaviour of hydrocolloid…show more content…
In view of increasing biological and technological applications, physicochemical properties of saccharides have been studied in aqueous phosphate salt solutionsRef. To understanding the mixing effects due to solute/cosolute-solvent (H2O + phosphate based salts) interactions, we report here the volumetric, calorimetric, ultrasonic, and rheological properties for monosaccharides, methyl glycosides, 2-deoxy, and 6-deoxy derivatives of monosaccharides, and oligo- (di- and tri-) saccharides in aqueous solutions of mB = (0.5, 1.0, 1.5 & 2.0) mol•kg–1 sodium phosphate (NaH2PO4), and ammonium phosphate (NH4H2PO4) monobasic, and potassium phosphate (K3PO4) tribasic salts at T = (288.15, 298.15, 308.15 & 318.15) K and atmospheric pressure. These data have been utilized to evaluate standard partial molar volumes, V2◦ and their transfer, ΔtV2◦ at infinite-dilution, pair and triplet interaction coefficients, and expansion coefficients. The variation of these parameters with temperature and concentration has been discussed in terms of various molecular interactions occurring in the
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