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Gluconic Acid as a New Green Solvent for Recovery of Polysaccharides by Clean Technologies

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Alternative Solvents for Natural Products Extraction

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The gluconic acid is an inexpensive and bio-based organic compound with new insights to drive growth in the eco-friendly industries. In organic chemistry, the gluconic acid is considered as a sustainable medium for organic reactions; meanwhile, natural product technologies suggest their potential as green solvents for extraction. In this chapter, advances of use of gluconic acid as a green solvent are presented in combination with green technologies for production of polysaccharides from biomasses from animal (chitin), microbial (chitosan-glucan), or vegetal (pectin) origins. Furthermore, this weak organic acid is capable of depolymerizing chitosan under microwave radiation for the production of water-soluble chitosan. The use of gluconic acid in combination with biomasses and clean technologies offers new green processes for the production of specialty polysaccharides and its derivatives under environmentally friendly process.

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The authors express their gratefulness to the Mexican National Council for Science and Technology (CONACyT) for postdoctoral fellowship program to Oscar Fernando Vazquez Vuelvas and master in science scholarship to Cecilia Perez Cruz.

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  1. Laboratory of Applied Glycobiotechnology, Food Research Department, School of Chemistry, Universidad Autonoma de Coahuila, Saltillo, 25280, Coahuila, Mexico

    Juan Carlos Contreras-Esquivel, Maria-Josse Vasquez-Mejia, Humberto Galindo-Musico & Cecilia Perez-Cruz

  2. Research and Development Center, Coyotefoods Biopolymer and Biotechnology Co., Simon Bolivar 851-A, Saltillo, 25000, Coahuila, Mexico

    Juan Carlos Contreras-Esquivel & Maria-Josse Vasquez-Mejia

  3. Laboratory of Food Biochemistry, Centro de Investigación en Alimentacion y Desarrollo (CIAD)-AC, Culiacan, 80129, Sinaloa, Mexico

    Adriana Sañudo-Barajas & Rosabel Velez-de-la-Rocha

  4. School of Chemistry, Universidad de Colima, Coquimatlan, 28400, Colima, Mexico

    Oscar F. Vazquez-Vuelvas

  5. School of Biological Sciences, Universidad Autonoma de Coahuila, Torreon, 27000, Coahuila, Mexico

    Nagamani Balagurusamy

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Contreras-Esquivel, J.C. et al. (2014). Gluconic Acid as a New Green Solvent for Recovery of Polysaccharides by Clean Technologies. In: Chemat, F., Vian, M. (eds) Alternative Solvents for Natural Products Extraction. Green Chemistry and Sustainable Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43628-8_11

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