What is the PKA of the primary and secondary hydroxyl groups in cellulose?

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Which of them have the tendency to react with first?

The primary alcohol has the lowest pKa (somewhere around ~14-16) and is less crowded, it will react first as a nucleophile in a substitution reaction

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