Carbohydrate PEGylation, an approach to improve pharmacological potency

• M. Eugenia Giorgi,
• Rosalía Agusti and
• Rosa M. de Lederkremer

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1433–1444, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.147

• mannose to PEI via a PEG chain spacer (Figure 3B). This system was used to deliver small interfering RNA (siRNA) into a murine macrophage cell line [44]. Mannose residues as their 2-aminoethyl glycosides were attached by reductive amination to the surface of copolymer micelles of PEG with poly-ε

Formation of carbohydrate-functionalised polystyrene and glass slides and their analysis by MALDI-TOF MS

• Martin J. Weissenborn,
• Johannes W. Wehner,
• Christopher J. Gray,
• Robert Šardzík,
• Claire E. Eyers,
• Thisbe K. Lindhorst and
• Sabine L. Flitsch

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 753–762, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.86

• -mercaptoundecanoic acid (1), which is tritylated with 2 in a straightforward synthesis, in 98% yield, following the procedure of Kovács et al. [23] (Scheme 1). The acid 3 was coupled with either of the aminoethyl glycosides 4 [24][25][26] or the GlcNAc derivative 6 [27], which were prepared according to literature

Preparation of aminoethyl glycosides for glycoconjugation

• Robert Šardzík,
• Gavin T. Noble,
• Martin J. Weissenborn,
• Andrew Martin,
• Simon J. Webb and
• Sabine L. Flitsch

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2010, 6, 699–703, doi:10.3762/bjoc.6.81

• aminoethyl glycosides of cell-surface carbohydrates, which are important intermediates for glycoarray synthesis, is described. A set of protocols was developed which provide these intermediates, in a short number of steps, from commercially available starting materials. Keywords: aminoethyl glycosides

• that aminoethyl glycosides are conveniently conjugated to surfaces containing activated carboxylates, they have become a useful generic anomeric functional group for glycoconjugation. The importance of this linker merits efforts into finding a robust synthetic method than can be used by scientists who

• general aminoethylation method that was applicable to all targets was found, which rather suggests that protocols need to be tailored for each sugar. Results and Discussion Coupling reactions Aminoethyl glycosides have previously been generated in a number of ways. Free sugars have been glycosylated with