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A MAJOR problem in studying polysaccharides is the isolation of individual polysaccharides from mixtures. In connexion with work on hemi-cellulose B it was observed that a solution of this polysaccharide in aqueous calcium chloride was partially precipitated by adding iodine–potassium iodide, and thus a separation of polymer types may have occurred.
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GAILLARD, B. Separation of Linear from Branched Polysaccharides by Precipitation as Iodine Complexes. Nature 191, 1295–1296 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/1911295a0
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