The proposed monograph summarizes scientific achievements in the fieldof polysaccharide chemistry performed in the last decade. For the firsttime, the particular features of polysaccharide structure,physical-chemical properties and biochemical transformations in theirinterrelations are considered as well as the questions of polysaccharidemodification along the whole hierarchical chain, including starch mono-,di-, oligo- and polysaccharides, chitin, chitozan and cellulose.Polysaccharide interactions with diverse solvents and low-molecular,macrocyclic and high-molecular substances in solutions are scrutinized.Several aspects of mechanical-chemical modification of polysaccharidesin solid state and in gel are observed. Modern concepts of enzymedegradation of polysaccharides and technologies of natural polymersprocessing are analyzed.The book is intended for wide range of readers: students, postgraduates, engineers and scientists engaged in polymer chemistry,organic and physical chemistry.
2005; vi+380 pages ISBN 90-6764-419-6 Price (all prices are subject to change without notice): EUR 130/US$ 186
