Chemical and thermal characteristics of soluble polysaccharides from fruit pericarps of the Algerian Argania spinosa

Autor: Hachem Kadda, Boudraa Kamel Eddine, Kaid-Harche Meriem
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Polish Journal of Chemical Technology, Vol 22, Iss 4, Pp 17-21 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1899-4741
DOI: 10.2478/pjct-2020-0033
Popis: Soluble polysaccharides were isolated from fruit pericarps of the Algerian Argania spinosa. The cell wall fraction was subjected to sequential extractions with H2O (2 × 2 h at 100°C), EDTA (1%, 6 h at 80°C) and KOH (1 and 4 M, 14 h at 25°C). The structures of the obtained polysaccharide fractions were characterized using gas chromatography (GC), infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The presence of arabinose, galactose and rhamnose in the pectin fractions suggests the presence of rhamnogalacturonan, while the abundance of xylose in the hemicellulosic fractions indicates the presence of xylan. The DSC data revealed the endothermal behavior of all the soluble polysaccharides and only two thermal transitions, the glass transition (Tg) and the fusion transition (Tf) have been recorded.
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