Constituent Cellulose | SSHADE

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Constituent

Name: Cellulose
Official name: Cellulose

Family: molecular solid
Class: polar molecular solid
Compound type: homopolymer

Constituent abundance in material

Relevance: main - major
Arrangement: single phase
Mass fraction: 1.0
Mole fraction: 1.0

Terminal function: $OH$ and $H$
Monomer number: n
Molar mass: 162.1406 per mer unit $g/mol$
Polymolecularity index: 1

Chemical composition

Formula: $HO((C_5H_5O)_{cycl}CH_2(OH)_3O)_nH$
Chemical formula: H2O(C6H10O5)n
Elemental formula: (C)6-n (O)6-n (H)12-n
Isotope mixture type: terrestrial abundance

	Formula	Name	Family	Number min-max	Mole fraction	Isotope mole fraction	State	Relevance
	D- $C_{6}H_{12}O_{6}$	D-Glucose	molecule	1 - n		1	constituent mer	main

Composition comments: The chain can contain from several hundred to many thousands D-glucose unit. The D-glucose formula is C6H12O6 while for Cellulose it correspond to C6H10O5

Chemical functions and bonds

Chemical functions

	Function	Number	Relevance
	$R-OH$	1
	$R-OH$	5	main
	$R-O-R$	1	main
	$R-CH_2-R$	1	main

Chemical bonds

	Bond	Number	Relevance
	$\geq C-O-$	n
	$-O-H$	2
	$-O-H$	5	main
	$\geq C-H$	7	main
	$\geq C-O-$	7	main
	$\geq C-C \leq$	5	main

Class: molecular solids with polar molecules (02)

Phase name: various
Phase type: various

Crystallography

Crystal system: various
Crystal class: various
Crystal class symbol: various
Crystal spacegroup: various
Comments: There is different crystalline structures of cellulose. The natural are cellulose Iα and Iβ but generally consist of a mix between amorphous and crystaline structure

Texture: monocrystalline

Physical properties

Molar mass: 162.1406 $g/mol$
Density: 1.5 $g/cm^3$