“…Synthesis of quaternary ammonium groups containing polysaccharides have been performed by using commercially available reagents such as N-(3-chloro-2-hydroxypropyl)-N,N,N-trimethylammonium chloride (CHPTAC) ((QUAB ® 188)) or N-(glycidyl)-N,N,N-trimethylammonium chloride (GTAC) (QUAB ® 151), and modified polysaccharides were cellulose (Abbott, Bell, Handa, & Stoddart, 2006;Song, Sun, Zhang, Zhou, & Zhang, 2008;Yan, Tao, & Bangal, 2009), microcrystalline cellulose (Antal & Micko, 1992), hemicellulose (Ren, Sun, Liu, Lin, & He, 2007), starch (Haack, Heinze, Oelmeyer, & Kulicke, 2002;Kavaliauskaite, Klimaviciute, & Zemaitaitis, 2008;Pal, Mal, & Singh, 2005;Wang & Xie, 2010), corn cob meal (Simkovic, Mlynar, & Alfoldi, 1992), glycogen (Pal, Mal, & Singh, 2006), arabinoxylan (Köhnke, Brelid, & Westman, 2009), tamarind kernel polysaccharide (Pal et al, 2009), guar gum , chitosan (Sajomsang, Gonil, & Tantayanon, 2009;Sajomsang, Tantayanon, Tangpasuthadol, & Daly, 2009), konjak glucomannan (Yu, Huang, Ying, & Xiao, 2007), maltodextrin (Loiseau, Imbertie, Bories, Betbeder, & De Miguel, 2002), or dextran (Thomas, Rekha, & Sharma, 2010). The modification can proceed in homogeneous (solutions) or heterogeneous media (suspensions).…”