Structure of monosaccharides - conformation and configuration

30 Setembro 2016, 14:00 • Amélia Pilar Grases dos Santos Silva Rauter

Introduction to molecular glycobiology. The structural diversity of carbohydrates in nature. Monosaccharides. Depiction of acyclic forms – Fischer projection, zigzag depiction. Aldoses and ketoses, D and L series. Acyclic forms conformation. Configurational prefixes. Monosaccharide cyclic forms, furanoses and pyranoses from D and L series. Fischer projection of cyclic forms, and assignment of the anomeric configuration. Conformation of cyclic sugars belonging to the D and L-series.