Tag Archives: Carbohydrates

Oligosaccharide Catch and Release

The synthesis of oligosaccharides is not easy when compared to to other oligomeric biomolecules such as oligonucleotides and peptides.  There’s a number of reasons for this, but primarily it comes down to one thing: complexity.  For example, DNA is made … Continue reading

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Total synthesis of macrocyclic glycosides

Prof. Seiji Takeuchi at Niigata University has recently published a paper describing his group’s efforts at the total synthesis of three closely related macrocyclic glycosides. These three are clemochinenoside A, clemochinenoside B, and berchemolide.  As seen in the figure below, … Continue reading

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Microreactors in Fluorous Separations

As mentioned in a report from ISoFT ’09, one of the more interesting talks was given by Prof. Mamoru Mizuno of the Noguchi Institute in Japan.  His group is primarily interested in using FLLE as a purification technique for the … Continue reading

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ISoFT’09, Monday Report

Last night was the real beginning of the ISoFT’09 portion of the conference with the ISoFT Award session.  The session was held in the evening with no other concurrent sessions.  To begin the session we were treated to some sort … Continue reading

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Greetings from the ACS Meeting in Salt Lake City

The Spring 2009 American Chemical Society Meeting started yesterday in Salt Lake City.  My primary role at the conference is to speak at the symposium honoring George Moore as this year’s recipient of the ACS Award in Industrial Chemistry.  I’ll … Continue reading

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