DETERMINATION OF DEGREE OF SUBSTITUTION OF SODIUM CARBOXYMETHYLCELLULOSE
DETERMINATION OF DEGREE OF SUBSTITUTION OF SODIUM CARBOXYMETHYLCELLULOSE
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DOI:
10.1021/ac60001a007
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发表时间:
1947-01-01
影响因子:
7.4
通讯作者:
DIEPHUIS, F
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作者:
EYLER, RW;KLUG, ED;DIEPHUIS, F
Hollabaugh, Burt, and Walsh (5) have published a complete review and bibliography on the uses and applications of this prod-uct. Brown and Houghton (1) inanother review described a method for determining degree of substitution of tire acid form of carboxymethylcellulose based uponelectrometric titration. Another method reported by the same authors (1) involves precipitation of the copper or aluminum salts and determination of the metal content of the precipitate. Schmidt, Meinel, Jandebeur, and Simson (7) describe a conductometric method for determining carboxyl in cellulose which is of interest in connection with one of the methods discussed in the present paper. Sakurada (6) reports three methods for determining substitution, one involving potentiometric or conductometric titration with sodium hydroxide, another requiring ashing the sodium salt, and the third consisting in titration of the free acid with sodium hydrox-ide. Since none of these procedures fulfilled the need for methods suitable for control purposes and applicable to both purified and unpurified samples ofthe sodium salt of varying degrees of sub-stitution, the methods presented here were developed. This paperdescribes three methods—acid-wash, conductometric and colorimetric—for determination of the degree of sub-stitution of sodium carboxymethylcellulose. With appropriate modifications, however, the methods would be applicable also to the free acid form. Quantitative determination of the amount of carboxymethylcellulose present in admixture with other ma-terials would be possible but would require previous knowledge of the degree ofsubstitution. Each of these methods is best adapted to a certain type of sample, although the applications may some-times overlap.