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Apart from their traditional use for leather manufacture and more recent applications as wood adhesives, tannins have seen limited success as specialty chemicals. Previous attempts to develop tannin-based chemicals have suffered because of our failure to appreciate fully economic requirements, purity and stability factors, and application needs of industrial processes. This chapter presents an overview of some of the chemical, physical, and structural features of tannins that have a bearing on future specialty chemical development. Information also is provided on areas where tannins have recently been utilized.
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Steiner, P.R. (1989). Tannins as Specialty Chemicals: An Overview. In: Hemingway, R.W., Karchesy, J.J., Branham, S.J. (eds) Chemistry and Significance of Condensed Tannins. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-7511-1_33
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