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Peracetylated sugar derivatives show high solubility in liquid and supercritical carbon dioxide
Vijay K Potluri1, Jianhang Xu, Robert Enick
1Department of Chemistry, Yale University, PO Box 208107, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8107, USA.
Organic Letters
|July 6, 2002
Abstract:
[structure: see text] Acetylated sugars derivatives exhibit high solubility in liquid and supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO(2)). Peracetylated sorbitol and beta-D-galactose are soluble under mild conditions in scCO(2), high pressures are required to dissolve peracetylated beta-cyclodextrin, and peracetoxyalkyl chains impart CO(2)-solubility to amides.