Hydrolysis Kinetics of Poly(lactic acid) Fiber

Kinetics of Formic Acid-catalyzed Cellulose Hydrolysis

Hydrolysis is a reaction to produce sugars from lignocellulosic raw materials for biochemical production. The present study elucidates the hydrolysis of cellulose and formation of glucose decomposition products catalyzed by 5% to 20% (w/w) formic acid at 180 to 220 °C with an initial cellulose concentration of 10 to 100 g/L. Microcrystalline cellulose was used as a model compound. The experimen...

THE KINETICS OF HYDROLYSIS OF TRANS-DIFLUOROTETRAMMINECHROMIUM (111) ION IN VARIOUS CONCENTRATED ACID SOLUTIONS

The rate of hydrolysis of trans -[Cr(NH ) F ] was obtained as a function of acid concentsation in perchloric, sulfuric and nitric acid at 3Q°C. The results have been analyzed by the treatment of Bunnett and Olsen. Values of the parameter ?in Olsen equation are consistent with the participation of water as a proton-wansfer agent in the rate-determining step. The Arrhenius plot for perchlori...

Polylactic acid (PLA)

This website provides an excellent overview of PLA as a polymer, its properties, and manufacture. This web article describes the production of lactic acid from biomass by microbial fermentation coupled to a poly-merization process to make PLA. The article is a bit dated and its industrial projections are now seen to be a bit over-optimistic. NatureWorks is the company that started large-scale p...

The kinetics of the enzymatic hydrolysis of hyaluronic acid.

Reactivity of plasmalogens: kinetics of acid-catalyzed hydrolysis.

The acid-catalyzed hydrolysis of the alpha,-unsaturated ether group of two plasmalogens, lysophosphatidal choline and lysophosphatidal ethanolamine, and several model compounds (isobutyl vinyl ether, 1-butenyl ethyl ether, and dihydropyran) was studied by determining the true second-order rate constants. The results indicate that the chemical reactivity of the substituted vinyl ether group in p...