Behaviour of xyloisosaccharinic acid and xyloisosaccharino-1,4-lactone in aqueous solutions at varying pHs
作者:Michael Almond、Paul B. Shaw、Paul N. Humphreys、Marcus J. Chadha、Klaus Niemelä、Andrew P. Laws
DOI:10.1016/j.carres.2012.09.019
日期:2012.12
Xyloisosaccharinic acid is one of the major degradation products formed during the alkali catalysed hydrolysis of hemicelluloses. In acidic solution xyloisosaccharinic acid undergoes an acid catalysed lactonisation to generate xyloisosaccharino-1,4-lactone. We report here the solution phase properties of xyloisosaccharinic including measurement of its aqueous pK(a) (3.00 +/- 0.05) using C-13 NMR methods. We also report rate constants for the acid catalysed lactonisation, k(lact(D20)), of xyloisosaccharinic acid and the results of our investigations of the kinetics of hydrolysis of xyloisosaccharino-1,4-lactone at acidic and basic pHs. The second-order rate constants for the hydrolysis reactions k(HO-) (25 M-1 s(-1)) and k(D+) (4.13 E-4 M-1 s(-1)). (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.