Abstract:
OBJECTIVE Using the polysaccharide from corn silk as the raw material, to study the selenizing process with sodium selenite. METHODS Selenizing conditions were established by single factor and orthogonal design; determining content of polysaccharide selenide by Se(Ⅳ)-KSCN-MV extraction spectrophotometry; characterizing the structure of polysaccharide selenide by IR. RESULTS The optimal conditions were: 70 ℃ reaction temperature, 8 hours reaction time, mass ratio of corn silk polysaccharide to sodium selenite 1∶1.2, 0.3% HNO3 of volume fraction. The average content of selenium in corn silk polysaccharide was over 3.17 mg·g
-1 and average yield was 35.72%. IR results showed that corn silk polysaccharide contained Se=O and Se-C. CONCLUSION Corn silk polysaccharide selenide is successfully synthesized and the study provides the foundation for further study and exploiting for corn silk.