Table 1.

Summary of traditional and microwave acid hydrolysis results. Each number is reported as a percentage of the total product recovered. The column entry listed as unhydrolyzed refers to mixtures of chain lengths greater than hexamer that were not resolved by the size exclusion column.

Trial	% Monomer	% Dimer	% Trimer	% Tetramer	% Pentamer	% Hexamer	% Unhydrolyzed
Traditional
Trial 1	17.1	24.1	9.2	0.0	49.6	0	0
Trial 2	20.8	37.2	13.9	12.0	14.3	5	10.6
Trial 3	25.6	30.5	12.4	28.1	0	0	3.41
Std. Dev.	4.24	6.55	2.40	14.10	25.50	2.89	5.41
Microwave
6 Minutes
Trial 1	9.3	29.6	12.3	10.1	38.7	0	0
Trial 2	17.1	41.1	21.8	7.1	12.9	0	0
Std. Dev.	5.54	8.15	6.71	2.16	18.20	0	0
8 Minutes
Trial 1	19.1	43.6	13.6	23.8	0	0	0
Trial 2	6.9	44.94	24.5	17.8	6.7	0	0
Trial 3	10	30.61	25.3	34.1	0	0	0
Std. Dev.	6.35	7.91	6.54	8.25	3.89	0	0
9 Minutes
Trial 1	17.7	47.9	17.7	15.9	0.9	0	0
Trial 2	13.7	37	18.9	15.3	15.1	0	0
Std. Dev.	2.78	7.69	0.89	0.46	10.00	0	0
10 Minutes
Trial 1	17.8	46.1	16.2	19.9	0	0	0
Trial 2	18.1	39.5	12.5	29.9	0	0	0
Std. Dev.	0.15	4.64	3.19	7.06	0	0	0
12 Minutes
Trial 1	17.0	50.4	17.3	15.4	0	0	0
Trial 2	22.1	50.4	12.7	14.8	0	0	0
Std. Dev.	3.63	0.00	3.19	0.4	0	0	0