Title: Destructurized starch and process for making same
Application Number: 87105988 Application Date: 1987.12.31
Publication Number: 1022812 Publication Date: 1988.12.14
Approval Pub. Date: Granted Pub. Date:
International Classifi-cation: C08B30/12
Applicant(s) Name: Warner-Lambert Co. (US) 2800 Plymouth Road Ann Arb Address:
Inventor(s) Name: Beat Dobler;Ivan Tomka;Robert Frederick Thomas Ste
Attorney & Agent: LI RUOJUAN
Abstract:
    A destructurized native starch material is described which has a water content in the range of about 10 to 25% by weight and that its mass average molar mass is reduced by a factor of 2 to 5000 compared to its original mass average molar mass. The destructurized starch is produced by heating a chemically non-modified starch material having a water content in the range of about 5 to 25% by weight of the total weight of the composition in the presence of a chain scission catalyst in a closed volume to an elevated temperature sufficient to form a thermoplastic melt and until the mass average molar mass is reduced by a factor of 2 to 5000.
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