The mucilage of Opuntia ficus-indica. Part 2. The degraded polysaccharide
- 1 January 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 1
- No. 6,p. 1464-1466
- https://doi.org/10.1039/p19790001464
Abstract
The degraded polysaccharide produced on partial hydrolysis of the mucilage of Opuntia ficus-indica has been shown by methylation analysis and periodate oxidation to be composed of chains of alternating α-1,4-D-galactopyranosyluronic acid and β-1,2-L-rhamnopyranosyl units to which are attached chains of β-1,6-D-galactopyranosyl units at position C-3 of most of the rhamnopyranosyl residues. The analytical data support the proposed structure.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- CHOLLA GUM: I. STRUCTURE OF THE DEGRADED CHOLLA GUMCanadian Journal of Chemistry, 1966