Polysaccharides are carbohydrate polymers in which monosaccharide ((CH2O)n) units are covalently joined by an O-glycosidic bond in either a branched or linear configuration. Polysaccharides serve ...

Understanding the biological roles of polysaccharides has been ... and deprotection of hydroxyls on monosaccharides have been developed. For example, Wong et al. developed an efficient orthogonal ...

For example, plants and seaweed have oligosaccharides with many pharmacological effects, microbial antibiotics and anti-cancer drugs contain monosaccharide components, and cell walls of ...