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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

development, sugar receptor, oligosaccharides

College

Physical and Mathematical Sciences

Department

Chemistry and Biochemistry

Abstract

Oligosaccharides are enormously rich in structural information. They are often branched and can be bonded together by a variety of different linkages, unlike polypeptides which contain identical peptide bonds.1 For this reason, polysaccharides play a crucial role in cell recognition.2 Although carbohydrate recognition is known to take place, the event is not well understood.3 In order to better understand the hydrophobic interactions that enhance binding between sugar based receptors and various small hydrophobic molecules in aqueous solvents, the synthesis of a glucose based cavity was attempted (see Fig. 3). The cavity was carefully designed to maximize hydrophobic interactions with small hydrophobic substrates (see Fig. 1).

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