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JOURNAL OF APPLIED POLYMER SCIENCE
Volume 119, Issue 6, Pages 3372-3381Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/app.32973
Keywords
esterification; graft copolymers; waste
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In this article, we report on the synthesis of cellulose esters by the reaction of cellulose and some cyclic anhydrides, such as succinic, maleic, and phthalic anhydrides. For this, an esterification method was finalized. Indeed, cellulose extracted from Posidonia biomass was first solubilized in the solvent system lithium chloride (LiCl)/N,N-dimethylacetamide and then esterified by cyclic anhydride in the presence of catalysts such as N,N-dimethyl-4-aminopyridine, tripropylamine, tributylamine, and calcium carbonate. This method was fast and reproducible with the LiCl system as a solvent and with an efficient activation by controlled microwave power. In this way, the reaction time was reduced from several hours to just a few minutes. The reaction products were characterized by IR and solid-state cross-polarization/magic angle spinning C-13-NMR spectroscopy. The degree of substitution (DS) and the grafted ester group content of the different products were obtained by alkali saponification followed by titration of the excess alkali. Two activation methods were compared, and the results show that the application of classical heating gave less successful results than those obtained by microwave activation. Indeed, with microwave activation, a higher DS (2.25) was obtained after 10 min. However, with classical heating, a value of DS equal to 1.2 was obtained after 12 h. (C) 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 119: 3372-3381, 2011
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