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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 14, 2014
Kevin Edgar, Blacksburg, VA (US);
Daiqiang Xu, Newark, DE (US);
Xueyan Zheng, Blacksburg, VA (US);
VTIP Intellectual Properties, Inc., Blacksburg, VA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the invention provide regioselectively substituted carbohydrate and polysaccharide derivatives, such as cellulose esters, and methods for preparing them. Particular methods of the invention include deacylation of esters using tetrabutylammonium fluoride to obtain selective substitution at desired hydroxyl position(s) of the ester. Preferred is deacylation of an ester, which shows selectivity for removal of acyl groups from the ester of the secondary alcohols at C-2 and C-3, and which affords cellulose-6-O-esters with high regioselectivity by a simple one-step process employing no protective groups. Inventive regioselectively substituted cellulose esters can be prepared by such methods to obtain esters with the following anhydroglucose repeating units: