FUW TRENDS IN SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY JOURNAL
(A Peer Review Journal)
e–ISSN: 2408–5162; p–ISSN: 2048–5170
keywords: Plectranthus esculentus, polysaccharide, FTIR, ID-NMR, spectroscopy
Plectranthus esculentus (Lamiaceae)tubers in Jos, Nigeria produced a white starch. This starch was characterized by the application of Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) and 1-Dimensional (ID) Nuclear Magnetic Resonances (NMR) spectroscopy. Application of FTIR and ID-NMR spectroscopy to the original starch from P.esculentus tubers in combination with chemical data, led to confirm that the structure of the original polysaccharide contains α-D-glucose linked at 1 → 4. It was demonstrated that ID-NMR spectroscopy is a good tool for structural information of complex hetero-polysaccharides.
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