Chitin and Chitosan
What is Chitin? Chitin, a polysaccharide is considered the second most plentiful biopolymer in nature after cellulose. It is widely distributed in nature as ordered macrofibrils, made of linked N-acetylglucosamine subunits. It is a linear amino polysaccharide composed of β-(1-4)-connected 2-deoxy-2-acetamido-D-glucose units and Its chemical formula is (C8H13O5N)n. While the structure of chitin is most…