Chemical Communications 2010-12-28

Oligosaccharide sensing with chromophore-modified curdlan in aqueous media.

Gaku Fukuhara, Yoshihisa Inoue

Index: Chem. Commun. (Camb.) 46(48) , 9128-30, (2010)

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Abstract

A newly synthesized chromophore-modified curdlan functions as a saccharide chemosensor in aqueous solution, enabling us to discriminate tetrasaccharide acarbose from 24 mono-, di-, tri-, and tetrasaccharides.