Introduction to cellulose as a raw material

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Introduction to cellulose as a raw material Chemical structure of cellulose Polysaccharides are complex carbohydrates that consist of more than nine monosaccharide units covalently bound together by glycosidic linkages.1 Their structures may range from linear to highly branched polymers. These polymeric carbohydrates occur naturally as such (e.g., cellulose, hemicelluloses, starch, pectins and gums) or as

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Raimo Alén, University of Jyväskylä

References:

Alén, R. 2018. Carbohydrate Chemistry – Fundamentals and Applications. World Scientific, Singapore. 586 p.
Young, R. A. and Rowell, R. M. (Eds.). 1986. Cellulose – Structure, Modification and Hydrolysis. John Wiley & Sons, New York, NY, USA. 379 p.
Fengel, D. and Wegener, G. 1989. Wood – Chemistry, Ultrastructure, Reactions. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, Germany. 613 p.
Sjöström, E. 1993. Wood Chemistry – Fundamentals and Applications. 2^nd edition, Academic Press, San Diego, CA, USA. 293 p.
French, A. D., Bertoniere, N. R., Battista, O. A., Cuculo, J. A. and Gray, D.G. 1993. Cellulose. In: Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, Volume 5. 4^th edition, John Wiley & Sons, New York, NY, USA. pp. 476−496.
Klemm, D., Philipp, B., Heinze, T., Heinze, U. and Wagenknecht, W. (Eds.) 1998. Comprehensive Cellulose Chemistry Volume 1, Fundamentals and Analytical Methods. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany. 260 p.
Alén, R. 2000. Structure and chemical composition of wood. In: Stenius, P. (Ed.). Forest Products Chemistry. Fapet Oy, Helsinki, Finland. pp. 11−57.
Hon, D. N.-S. and Shiraishi, N. (Eds.). 2001. Wood and Cellulosic Chemistry, 2^nd edition. Marcel Dekker, New York, NY, USA. 914 p.
9Rowell. R. M. (Ed.). 2005. Handbook of Wood Chemistry and Wood Composites. Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, USA. 487 p.
Alén, R. 2011. Cellulose derivatives. In: Alén, R. Biorefining of Forest Resources. Paper Engineers’ Association, Helsinki, Finland. pp. 305−354.
Alén, R. 2000. Basic chemistry of wood delignification. In: Stenius, P. (Ed.). Forest Products Chemistry. Fapet Oy, Helsinki, Finland. pp. 58−104.
Heinze, T. and Liebert, T. 2001. Unconventional methods in cellulose functionalization. Progress in Polymer Science 26:1689−1762.
Borbély, E. 2008. Lyocell, the new generation of regenerated cellulose. Acta Polytechnica Hungaria 5(3):11−18.
Klemm, D., Philipp, B., Heinze, T., Heinze, U. and Wagenknecht, W. (Eds.) 1998. Comprehensive Cellulose Chemistry Volume 2, Functionalization of Cellulose. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany. 389 p.

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