UMKEHRBARE GELE VON STAERKEDERIVATEN.

摘要

The invention provides modified starches having unique gelling properties which are prepared by chemically reacting an amylose containing starch base with an etherification or esterification reagent which will introduce a long linear hydrocarbon chain substituent therein. The aqueous gels formed by the starches are thermally and pH-reversible and the thermally-reversible gels are hot gels. The invention further provides an improved process for preparing starch halfacid esters in water by reacting starch under alkaline conditions with a hydrophobic-substituted cyclic dicarboxylic acid anhydride in the presence of a phase transfer agent.