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Oxidation of oligoglycosyl alditols during methylation catalyzed by sodium hydroxide and iodomethane in methyl sulfoxide

✍ Scribed by William S. York; Laura L. Kiefer; Peter Albersheim; Alan G. Darvill


Book ID
102992550
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1990
Tongue
English
Weight
549 KB
Volume
208
Category
Article
ISSN
0008-6215

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✦ Synopsis


Certain artifacts in the glycosyl-linkage analysis of oligoglycosyl alditols were shown to be caused by oxidation of the alditol moieties when 0-methylation was catalyzed by NaOH in Me,SO. The partially methylated alditol acetates derived from I-[*HI-cellobiitol that was 0-methylated by this method were analyzed in detail to confirm this conclusion.