Thermal reactivities of non-reducing sugars in polyether—Role of intermolecular hydrogen bonding in pyrolysis

Polyethers are known to change the pyrolytic pathways of reducing sugars such as glucose. This paper describes the thermal reactivities of non-reducing sugars in tetraethyleneglycol dimethyl ether (TEGDE, a polyether) under N2 at 200–280 °C. Levoglucosan (1,6-anhydro-β-d-glucopyranose), methyl β-d-glucopyranoside, methyl β-d-mannopyranoside, methyl β-d-galactopyranoside, methyl β-d-xylopyranoside, and methyl β-d-arabinopyranoside were used....