Department of Biomolecular Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology 4259 Nagatsuta-cho, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8501, Japan
Abstract:
A cyclic oligosaccharide derivative was synthesized by cationic ring-opening polymerization of an anhydrodisaccharide derivative under high vacuum in dichloromethane with 20 mol% of PF5 as initiator. Analysis of the spectral results showed that the oligomer chain is composed of only 3 glucose units connected by -1,6 linkages with a glucopyranosyl branching unit at C-4 of each sugar residue in the main chain.