Thermal and IR-Fourier transform spectroscopic study of water-soluble carbohydrate-arylamine condensation products in neutral media

Production of synthetic analogues of natural compounds, including high-molecular ones, as well as study of processes of their structure formation, is a pressing task of organic substances technology. To a large extent, this applies to synthetic humic substances, important products characterized by plant growth effect, chelating and other important properties. Simple carbohydrates and aromatic amines as oxygen and nitrogen-containing constituents during condensation in ethanol media produce water-fractionated products, the soluble fractions of which are studied herein by thermal degradation in combination with IR-Fourier transform spectroscopy. Spectral band profile is confirmed mainly by aliphatic structure with high degree of functionalization by carboxyl, hydroxyl and amine groups. As the isolated water-soluble solid products are thermally decomposed in the range of 100-180 °С temperatures in an inert atmosphere, the intensity of bands at 1030 and 1090 cm-1 decreases, and the intensity of the first band drops to almost zero at 180 °С...