title: Formation of a lamellar compound by reaction of acrylic acid crystallosolvated in highly crystalline beta-chitin.
abstract: A lamellar compound resulted from reaction of acrylic acid inside crystalline beta-chitin and the structure was investigated. Beta-chitin acts like a layered crystal, having stacked molecular sheets composed of parallel chains bound in one direction by intermolecular amide hydrogen bonding. Small guest molecules can be inserted between the molecular sheets, and a crystallosolvate can be formed. By immersion of beta-chitin in acrylic acid, a crystallosolvate was formed, which was then changed into the more stable lamellar compound by heat treatment at 105 degrees C. NMR measurement and IR spectroscopy showed that during the heat treatment there was a reaction between acrylic acid and the beta-chitin molecular sheet, but the sheet structure was maintained. By IR with deuteration, it was shown that the accessibility of solvents to this lamellar compound was greater than that for the initial beta-chitin. The lamellar compound is considered a kind of "pillared" structure related to the lamellar crystal.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan.
authors.forename: Yukie
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Saito
authors.forename: Youtaro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tomotake
authors.forename: Satoshi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Shida
mesh_terms: D000179:Acrylates / Q000737:chemistry*; D002686:Chitin / Q000737:chemistry*; D003460:Crystallization; D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray; D046911:Macromolecular Substances / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy / Q000379:methods; D046529:Microscopy, Electron, Transmission / Q000379:methods; D010316:Particle Size; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013055:Spectrophotometry, Infrared / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D000179:Acrylates; D046911:Macromolecular Substances; D002686:Chitin; C036658:acrylic acid