Kinetic evidence consistent with double helix formation in K-carrageenan solutions

1 January 1979

journal article
research article
Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications

No. 22,p. 988-990
https://doi.org/10.1039/c39790000988

Abstract

The dynamics of the salt (K⁺) induced disorder-order transition of κ-carrageenan have been studied by a polarimetric stopped-flow technique; formation of the ordered state is a second-order process, which supports the proposal that the aggregates of ordered polysaccharide chains contain double helical entities.

Keywords

KINETICS