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Conformations of polysaccharides in solution, gels, and crystals

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“Solution-gel-crystal” phase transitions in a polysaccharide-water-salt system were examined. Polysaccharide helices were shown to exhibit identical conformation in solutions, gels, and crystals containing up to 50 % of water.

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  1. N. D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, 47 Leninsky prosp., 117913, Moscow, Russian Federation

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Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khitnicheskaya, No. 6, pp. 1543–1546, June, 1996.

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Nikitin, I.V. Conformations of polysaccharides in solution, gels, and crystals. Russ Chem Bull 45, 1472–1475 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01434235

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