TY - JOUR N2 - The possibility of producing chitosan by enzymatic deacetylation of chitin has been the subject of numerous investigations over the last twenty years, but to date no satisfactory method has been developed. In this paper the influence of chitin chain conformation and chitin particle crystallinity on the enzymatic deacetylation of chitin is investigated to determine the relative importance of these two factors on the process. It is shown that the high crystallinity of chitin is the main obstacle to converting chitin to chitosan by enzymatic deacetylation. L1 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/85154/PDF/07-paper-Jaworska.pdf L2 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/85154 PY - 2016 IS - No 2 June EP - 267 DO - 10.1515/cpe-2016-0021 KW - chitin KW - chitin deacetylase KW - enzymatic deacetylation KW - structure KW - crystallinity KW - conformation A1 - Jaworska, MaƂgorzata M. A1 - Roberts, George A.F. PB - Polish Academy of Sciences Committee of Chemical and Process Engineering VL - vol. 37 DA - 2016 T1 - The influence of chitin structure on its enzymatic deacetylation SP - 261 UR - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/85154 T2 - Chemical and Process Engineering ER -