Materials Made of Synthetic Polysaccharides

Peter H. Seeberger

Max-Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces

Am Mühlenberg 1 14476 Potsdam (Germany)

and Department of Chemistry, Freie Universität Berlin (Germany)

Automated glycan assembly (AGA)¹ allows for the rapid preparation of polysaccharides using a commercial synthesizer.² Access to diverse glycans as large as 100-mers that can be combined to create polysaccharides as large as 151-mers³ are enabling material science investigations. The synthetic work is combined with molecular modelling and physical methods to characterize carbohydrate structures. ^5-7 Synthetic polysaccharides allow us to address fundamental questions of carbohydrate structure,⁸ folding⁹ and material science applications. Oligosaccharides self-assemble to form chiral supramolecular materials. ¹⁰

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