Green and eco-friendly approaches for the extraction of chitin and chitosan: A review

K Mohan, AR Ganesan, PN Ezhilarasi… - Carbohydrate …, 2022 - Elsevier
Chitin is one of the most diverse and naturally occurring biopolymers, and it is mainly
present in crustaceans, insects, and fungi. Chitosan is derived from chitin by deacetylation …

Progress in chitin analytics

MV Tsurkan, A Voronkina, Y Khrunyk… - Carbohydrate …, 2021 - Elsevier
Chitin is the second most abundant biopolymer and functions as the main structural
component in a variety of living organisms. In nature, chitin rarely occurs in a pure form, but …

On chemistry of γ-chitin

M Kaya, M Mujtaba, H Ehrlich, AM Salaberria… - Carbohydrate …, 2017 - Elsevier
The biological material, chitin, is present in nature in three allomorphic forms: α, β and γ.
Whereas most studies have dealt with α-and β-chitin, only few investigations have focused …