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Title: DEOXYCELLULOSES AND RELATED STRUCTURES

Author
item Vigo, Tyrone
item SACHINVALA, NAVZER - 6435-31-00

Submitted to: Polymers for Advanced Technologies
Publication Type: Review Article
Publication Acceptance Date: 1/21/1999
Publication Date: N/A
Citation: N/A

Interpretive Summary: Review paper - interpretive summary not required.

Technical Abstract: The syntheses of various deoxycelluloses and related structures (cellulosenes and anhydrocelluloses) from the mid-1920's to the present are critically reviewed. General synthetic strategies to prepare deoxycelluloses include nucleophilic displacement of good leaving groups. Distinctions are made between reaction of cellulosics under homogeneous and dheterogeneous conditions. Recent advances in the preparation of halodeoxycelluloses have led to high degree of substitution fluorodeoxycelluloses and bromodeoxycelluloses. Applications for the deoxycelluloses are numerous and characterized by biological, chemical or physical end uses.