Polyelectrolyte complexes of sodium alginate with chitosan or its derivatives for microcapsules
✍ Scribed by Kuen Yong Lee; Won Ho Park; Wan Shik Ha
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 196 KB
- Volume
- 63
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0021-8995
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✦ Synopsis
Chitosan, a cationic polysaccharide, was heterogeneously deacetylated with a 47% sodium hydroxide solution and followed by a homogeneous reacetylation with acetic anhydrides to control the N-acetyl content of the chitosan having a similar molecular weight. The chitosans having different degrees of N-acetylation were complexed with sodium alginate, an anionic polysaccharide, and the formation behavior of polyelectrolyte complexes (PECs) was examined by the viscometry in various pH ranges. The maximum mixing ratio ( R max ) increased with a decrease in the degree of N-acetylation of the chitosan at the same pH, and with a decrease in pH at the same degree of N-acetylation. Similarly, N-acylated chitosans were also prepared. The Nacyl chitosans scarcely affected the formation behavior of PECs with sodium alginates. For the application of the PECs produced, the microencapsulation of a drug was performed and the release property of drug was tested. The microcapsules were prepared in one step by the extrusion of a solution of guaifenesin and sodium alginate into a solution containing calcium chloride and chitosan through interpolymeric ionic interactions. The drug release during the drug-loaded microcapsules storage in saline was found to depend on the pH where the microcapsules were formed and the kind of Nacyl groups introduced to the chitosan.