title: Capillary electrophoresis as a method for determining the hydrolysis rate constant of raffinose.
abstract: Capillary electrophoresis was first employed for the determination of the hydrolysis rate constant of trisaccharide raffinose. Raffinose hydrolyzes in acidic medium at different temperatures; the hydrolysis products, including melibiose and fructose, were determined quantitatively. The concentration change in hydrolysis products over time provided useful information for calculating the hydrolysis constant of raffinose. The temperature dependence of the hydrolysis rate constant was used to calculate raffinose hydrolysis activation energy, which corresponds to the literature value.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, East China Normal University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Xianghuan
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Ding
authors.forename: Xin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Jiannong
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ye
mesh_terms: D002236:Carbohydrate Conformation; D002240:Carbohydrate Sequence; D019075:Electrophoresis, Capillary / Q000379:methods; D006601:Hexoses / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D006868:Hydrolysis; D007700:Kinetics; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011887:Raffinose / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D006601:Hexoses; D011887:Raffinose