Hydrogel spheres, fashioned from an operationally simple mould, that incorporate boronate units were shown to function as saccharide sensors.

Suitably protected mono- and di-saccharide residues associated with the glucuronic acid-containing repeat unit (1) related to pentosan polysulfate have been prepared. The stereo-controlled coupling, using trichloroacetimidate chemistry, of certain these is also described

Modified quantum mechanical calculations predict the binding enthalpies of saccharide inhibitors of lysozyme to within a few kilocalories of experimental measurements.

Pseudorotaxane formed by reacting beta-cyclodextrin bearing a phenylboronic acid residue with 1-heptyl-4-(4'-dimethylaminostyryl)pyridinium functioned as a novel fluorescent saccharide receptor having unique responses.

Boronic acids can reversibly bind diols, a molecular feature that is ubiquitous within saccharides, leading to their use in the design and implementation of sensors for numerous saccharide species. There growing understanding importance saccharides many biological processes systems; while or carbohydrate sensing medicine most often associated with detection glucose diabetes patients, have prove...

Submitted to the NANOTUBE'05 Conference: Photoluminescence from SWNTs and DWNTs dispersed in saccharide solution Takashi Shimada1 , Yuhei Miyauchi1 , Toshiki Sugai2,3 , Hisanori Shinohara2,3, and Shigeo Maruyama1 1The University of Tokyo 2Nagoya University 3CREST, JST Contact e-mail: [email protected] Photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy is a powerful tool to investigate the chirali...

Hyaluronic acid (HA), a glycosaminoglycan, is a linear polysaccharide with negative charge, composed of a repeating disaccharide unit [→4)-β-d-glucopyranosyluronic acid (1→3)-β-d- N-acetyl-d-glucoaminopyranose (1→]n ([→4) GlcA (1→3) GlcNAc 1→]n). It is widely used in different applications based on its physicochemical properties associated with its molecular weight. Enzymatic digestion by polys...