Publisher Summary This chapter describes the various aspects of the vibrational spectra of
carbohydrates. Vibrational spectroscopy is one of the techniques most adapted techniques …

In nature, carbohydrates form an important family of biomolecules, as simple or complex
carbohydrates, either alone or covalently linked to proteins or lipids. Most of the earlier …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the several possibilities regarding the
specification of the energy associated with the anomeric effect, and the experimental data …

We have calculated the aqueous solvation effects on the anomeric and conformational
equilibria of D-glucopyranose using a quantum chemical solvation model based on a …

The anomeric effect is thought to be the result of either molecular orbital interactions, which
stabilize the axial conformer, or electrostatic interactions, which destabilize the equatorial …

The article reviews the significant contributions to, and the present status of, applications of
computational methods for the characterization and prediction of protein–carbohydrate …

Nutation NMR was used to confirm the structure of a l3C doubly labeled cyclopolymer. A
labeling experiment used to give information regarding the reaction mechanismfor a …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses that the picture of an antiperiplanar lone pair of
electrons driving off a leaving group had occurred intermittently in the literature at least as …

Ab initio calculations predict that in 2-hydroxy-and 2-methoxytetrahydropyran,
hyperconjugative delocalization of lone-pair density on the exocyclic oxygen atom at C-1 …

Realistic polymer chain models are developed for several polysaccharides to illustrate,
using perspective drawings of representative chain conformations, the wide range of …