Physicochemical Properties of Daniella Oliverri Gum

Exudates are complex mixtures of organic compounds oozed by plants, often, but not always as a result of injury. These products are rich in carbon and hydrogen atoms and are also commonly called sap although the word sap is used to describe any fluid that travels inside plants. Only little research is currently underway on gums from African plants, yet Africa imports a lot of gums for pharmaceutical and food industries. This books presents exudate gum from Daniella oliverri which has been analyzed for their physiochemical properties, chemical constituents (using GC-MS). Their application as corrosion inhibitor has been investigated and reported. Furthermore, it gives an overview of the main application fields of the plant gums, both in food, polymer and pharmaceutics.

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Dr. Nnabuk Okon Eddy holds Ph.D in Physical Chemistry from the University of Calabar. He has acquired more than fourteen years of Lecturing and Research experiences in some areas of Chemistry including Computational Chemistry, , Instrumental/automated Analysis, Polymer, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry.