“…FTIR spectra of starch acetates showed bands characteristic of the chemical structure of the polysaccharide, i.e. stretching of hydrogen bonded O-H groups (3700-3000 cm À1 ), C-H stretching modes (3000-2800 cm À1 ), O-H bending vibration of adsorbed water molecules (1642 cm À1 ), C-O-H bending, CH 2 twisting, CH 2 bending and C-O-O stretching (1500-1300 cm À1 ), CH 2 OH (side chain) related mode/ C-O-H deformation mode (1240 cm À1 ), coupling mode of C-O and C-C stretching (1158 cm À1 ), C-O-H bending mode (1084 cm À1 ), C-O band stretching (1055 cm À1 ), skeletal mode vibrations of the a-1,4 glycosidic linkage (923 cm À1 ), C-H and CH 2 deformation (857 cm À1 ), and C-C stretching (763 cm À1 ) (Cael, Koenig, & Blackwell, 1975;Cyras et al, 2006;Diop, Li, Xie, & Shi, 2011;Garg & Jana, 2011;Kizil, Irudayaraj, & Seetharaman, 2002;Santha, Sudha, Vijaykumari, Nayar, & Moorthy, 1990;Xu et al, 2004;).…”