BELIEVING that the usual methods of acetylation give degraded products, Wassermann 1 has attempted to acetylate alginic acid with ketene. By this means he succeeded in introducing approximately one ...

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VARIOUS attempts have been described 1 to acetylate alginic acid by means of acetic anhydride or acetic acid, without or with catalysts, for example, pyridine, acids, etc. Some of the products thus ...

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“Bladderwrack is a brown seaweed in the genus Fucus that grows in the intertidal regions of temperate areas,” says Loretta Roberson, an associate scientist at the University of Chicago’s Marine ...

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Putative alginate lyase encoding genes were identified by the NCBI BLAST program (non-redundant protein sequences database). Sequence Alignments were performed using the EBI ClustalW2—Multiple ...

Algin is a big sugar molecule, or polysaccharide, that derives from brown seaweed and is employed as a gelling agent. This creates a hard gel that is utilised in “rubber masks” when coupled with ...