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In this work, we studied the catalytic mechanism of human pancreatic α-amylase (HPA). Our goal was to determine the catalytic mechanism of HPA with atomic detail using computational methods. We demonstrated that the HPA catalytic mechanism consists of two ...
Here we report that gamma-valerolactone (GVL), a biomass-derived solvent, can be used to facilitate the mild pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass. An 80% GVL, 20% water solvent system was used to pretreat hardwood at the mild temperature of 120 degrees ...
As living systems understanding got better, as life could be modeled in a batch, using immortalized cells, researches in fundamental sciences found startling applications of advanced techniques on living systems. As the biomaterial field developed various ...
A disaccharide is a challenging case for high-resolution H-1 solid-state NMR because of the 24 distinct protons (14 aliphatic and 10 OH) having H-1 chemical shifts that all fall within a narrow range of approximately 3 to 7 ppm. High-resolution H-1 (500 MH ...
The synthesis of 46 derivatives of (2R,3R,4S)-2-(aminomethyl)pyrrolidine-3,4-diol is reported (Scheme I and Fig. 3), and their inhibitory activities toward alpha-mannosidases from jack bean (B) and almonds (A) are evaluated (Table). ne most-potent inhibito ...
The Oshima-Nozaki (Et2AlI) condensation of isolevoglucosenone (4) with 2,6-anhydro-3,4,5,7-tetra-O-benzyl-D-glycero-D-gulo-heptose (5) gave an enone 6 that was converted with high stereoselectivity to 3-C-[(IR)-2,6-anhydro-D-glycero-D-gulo-heptitol-1-C-yl] ...
Radical C-glycosidation of racemic 5-exo-benzeneselenyl-6-endo-chloro-3-methylidene-7-oxabicyclo[2.2.1]hept an-2-one ((+/-)-2) with alpha -acetobromofucose (3) provided a mixture of alpha -C-fucosides that were reduced with NaBH4 to give two diastereomeric ...
Recent applications of the "naked sugar" methodology are reviewed. General methods have been developed to transform enantiomerically pure 7-oxabicyclo[2.2.1]heptyl derivatives into rare monosaccharides, carbasugars, into a new doubly-branched imino-dideoxy ...
The one-step conversion of cellulose to C6-alcs. via green and energy efficient approaches has, as far as we are aware, not been reported. Such a process presents a considerable challenge, the two key problems being (1) finding a suitable solvent that diss ...
The anomeric effect, originally defined as the preference of an electronegative substituent at the anomeric position of pyranosides to stand in an axial rather than an equatorial position, results from the combination of multiple steric, stereoelectronic a ...
