Cellulose oxidative and hydrolytic degradation: In situ FTIR approach

By J. Łojewska, P. Miśkowiec, T. Łojewski, L. Proniewicz. 2005

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This study concentrated upon refining an in-situ FTIR method to study accelerated ageing of paper under controlled conditions. The standardisation method applying the CH band at 2900 cm 1 allowed comparison of different samples from various experiments. To distinguish the features present in the spectra in the carbonyl region coming from carbonyl vibrations not disturbed by water vibrations, bound water present in paper was desorbed and the spectra were recorded at an elevated temperature. An oxidation index of paper defined as a ratio of integrals of bands at 1730 cm 1 to that at 1620 cm 1 has proved amenable to follow the degradation of cellulose aged under various conditions. The boundary conditions of experiments selected by us were able to discriminate between hydrolysis of glycosidic bonds and oxidation of carbon atoms in a glycopyranose anomer. Following the changes of the spectrum in the carbonyl range proceeding with oxidation time various intermediates of the cellulose partial oxidation were distinguished starting from the least oxidized monocarbonyl groups, through diketones to aldehydes and carboxyls. Assuming a paralleleconsecutive mechanism of the cellulose oxidation the spectra were resolved by fitting with multiple GaussianeLorentzian functions. 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Subfields: Archeology, Biomaterials, Biomedical Engineering

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• Study on hydrogen bonds of carboxymethyl cellulose sodium film with two-dimensional correlation infrared spectroscopy (2009, background): “Compared to Proniewicz’s (Lojewska et al., 2005) conclusions, the products of the cellulose partial oxidation is carboxyl groups.”
• Extraction of nanocellulose fibrils from lignocellulosic fibres: A novel approach (2011, background): “This results in the increase of the –OH concentration, evident from the increased intensity of the peak between 3300 and 3500 cm−1 bands compared to the untreated fibre (Lojewska et al., 2005; Mwaikambo & Ansell, 1999).”