Spectrophotometric Determination of Deac
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Hsien-Yi Hsiao; Chih-Cheng Tsai; Suming Chen; Bo-Chuan Hsieh; Richie L.C. Chen
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Article
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2004
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract **Summary:** A simple spectrophotometric method is proposed for determining deacetylation degrees (__DD__) of chitinous materials using phosphoric acid as the UVβtransparent solvent system. Calibrating by the extinction coefficients (__A__~210~) of Dβglucosamine and __N__βacetylβDβgluco