SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry - Department of Chemistry  

FCH 571Wood Chemistry

Spring Semester - 2006

Lectures and Assignments

 

 

 

Subject

Assignment

Date

 

1

Winter

 Introduction and Overview of Wood Chemistry

1:  1-20

1/17

 

2

Winter

 Wood morphology/ structure

1: , for a description of common commercially important woods  see http://cww.esf.edu/course/wtwinter/fch571/woodhandbook/1-charact-wood.pdf

1/19

 

3

Winter

Carbohydrate Chemistry- Monosaccharides, Nomenclature,

1:  21-32

Carbohydrate nomenclature

1/23

 

4

Winter

Ring shape, Equilibria, Sugar derivatives

1: 33-38

Zhu et al (2001) Equilibriua among Carbohydrate structures by 13C NMR

1/25

 

5

Winter

Oligo and Polysaccharides, linkages,derivatives

1: 38,Handouts,

read paper1

1/30

 

6

Winter

Polysaccharide isolation procedures

Detailed Analytical Procedures –Dept of OrganicChem, Univ Stockholm

2/1

 

7

Winter

Smith degradation; methylation analysis Analysis of linked sugars-NMR

 

2/6

 

8

Winter

Introduction to NMR methods

Karplus equation tool for carbohydrates

2/8

 

9

Winter

2-D NMR of carbohydrates

 

2/13

 

10

Winter

Oxidation and Reduction of Sugars

1: 39-49

2/15

 

11

Winter

Cellulose: Chemical and Physical Structure, Size,. Properties, Purification, Species variability

1:54-62

2/20

 

12

Winter

Cellulose: cont

1:

2/22

 

13

Winter

Xylan:

1:63-70

2/27

 

14

Winter

Glucomannans, Galactoglucomannans:

1:

3/1

 

 

Winter

Midterm oral exam

All Material through Cellulose Lectures- oral wk of 3/6

 

 

15

Winter

Thermal and Mechanical Properties of Cellulose and Hemicellulose

1:

3/6

 

16

Winter

Solvents, swelling systems, phase diagrams

1:

3/8

 

17

Winter

Commercially Important Polysaccharide Derivatives

1:

3/10

 

18

Winter

Commercial Polysaccharide derivatives

1: 204-208

3/20

 

19

Winter

Cellulose/Hemicellulose:

 Biomedical Applications

Handouts

3/22

 

20

Stipanovic?

The Biorefinery

Handouts

3/29

 

21

Winter

Student Presentations

20 minute presentation on a proof of polysaccharide structure

4/3

 

22

Winter

Student Presentations

Continued

4/5

 

23

Winter

Lignin I

1:

4/10

 

24

Winter

Lignin II

1:

4/12

 

25

Winter

Extractives   

1:

4/17

 

26

Winter

Biomass as a chemical platform

1:

4/19

 

27

Winter

3rd Student Presentation-1,2

1: 1

4/21

 

28

Winter

3rd Student Presentation-3,4

1: 1

4/24

 

27

Winter

Biosynthetic aspects of polysaccharides

1: 1

5/1

 

28

Winter

Review - optional

1: 

5/3

 

 

FINAL

TBA

 

 

 

 

  • 1. Sjöström, E. (1993) “WOOD CHEMISTRY: Fundamentals and Applications

Excuses, other than a Doctor’s note, will not be accepted for missing an exam, requests for an individual to have an exam at a different time will not be considered.

Depending upon class size, at least one exam will be oral

I reserve the right to give impromptu, unannounced "pop" quizzes on current or previous work and the assigned reading.

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