摘要:
Synthetic construction of fucosyl chitobiose [GlcNAc beta 1 -> 4(Fuc alpha 1 -> 3)GlcNAc] as an allergy-associated carbohydrate epitope was accomplished from three building blocks. The trisaccharidic unit was further transformed into a carbohydrate monomer and polymerization of the glycomonomer proceeded smoothly to provide a series of glycopolymers having various carbohydrate densities. In addition to the organic syntheses, biological evaluations of the glycomonomer and the polymers were carried out and sugar-clustering effects were observed. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.