Cryogels: recent applications in 3D-bioprinting, injectable cryogels, drug delivery, and wound healing

• Luke O. Jones,
• Leah Williams,
• Tasmin Boam,
• Martin Kalmet,
• Chidubem Oguike and
• Fiona L. Hatton

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2553–2569, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.171

• hydrolysis [8]. It has also been found that degradation of chitosan/dextran cryogels resulted in an average increase in pore size, possibly due to thinning of the pore walls and reduction in crosslinks [32]. In general, mechanical property analysis of degraded cryogels is a topic largely overlooked by

• [11][33][39]. Thermoresponsive cryogels comprising oligoethylene glycol have also been reported with dual shape memory behaviour [40]. Natural polymers such as cellulose derivatives, chitosan, gelatin, and dextran exhibit temperature-responsive properties and have been used in cryogels. 3.2. pH

• acetalated dextran nanoparticles in an injectable cryogel to combat the negative effects of chemotherapy and even suggested this approach as a potential method of vaccination (Figure 4) [82]. The injectable alginate cryogel was loaded with several therapeutic compounds, including spermine-modified acetalated

Photoinduced post-modification of graphitic carbon nitride-embedded hydrogels: synthesis of 'hydrophobic hydrogels' and pore substructuring

• Cansu Esen and
• Baris Kumru

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1323–1334, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.92

• –fluorescein isothiocyanate and fluorescein isothiocyanate–dextran fluorescent probes were subjected to HGCM and HGCM-vTA samples with a comparatively shorter releasing experiment than the one performed for RhB dye (Supporting Information File 1, Figure S4a). The static experiment principally relies on

• isothiocyanate conjugate (FITC-Albumin, Sigma-Aldrich), calcium chloride (CaCl2, 97%, Alfa Aesar), cyanuric acid (98%, Sigma-Aldrich), fluoresceinisothiocyanat-dextran (FITC–Dextran, 10.000 Mw), hydrochloric acid (HCl, 37%, Sigma-Aldrich), hydrochloric acid (1 M solution, Sigma-Aldrich), hydrogen peroxide (30

• progress spectroscopically every 24 h. The RhB dye releasing efficiency was calculated by using the following formula for each sample: c0: initial RhB dye concentration, ct: RhB dye concentration at specified time. FTIC-albumin and FTIC-dextran releasing experiment: 40 mg HGCM and HGCM-vTA were weighted

The B & B approach: Ball-milling conjugation of dextran with phenylboronic acid (PBA)-functionalized BODIPY

• Patrizia Andreozzi,
• Lorenza Tamberi,
• Elisamaria Tasca,
• Gina Elena Giacomazzo,
• Marta Martinez,
• Mirko Severi,
• Marco Marradi,
• Stefano Cicchi,
• Sergio Moya,
• Giacomo Biagiotti and
• Barbara Richichi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2272–2281, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.188

• , Poland 10.3762/bjoc.16.188 Abstract Mechanochemistry is an emerging and reliable alternative to conventional solution (batch) synthesis of complex molecules under green and solvent-free conditions. In this regard, we report here on the conjugation of a dextran polysaccharide with a fluorescent probe, a

• phenylboronic acid (PBA)-functionalized boron dipyrromethene (BODIPY) applying the ball milling approach. The ball milling formation of boron esters between PBA BODIPY and dextran proved to be more efficient in terms of reaction time, amount of reactants, and labelling degree compared to the corresponding

• solution-based synthetic route. PBA-BODIPY dextran assembles into nanoparticles of around 200 nm by hydrophobic interactions. The resulting PBA-BODIPY dextran nanoparticles retain an apolar interior as proved by pyrene fluorescence, suitable for the encapsulation of hydrophobic drugs with high

Clustering and curation of electropherograms: an efficient method for analyzing large cohorts of capillary electrophoresis glycomic profiles for bioprocessing operations

• Ian Walsh,
• Matthew S. F. Choo,
• Sim Lyn Chiin,
• Amelia Mak,
• Shi Jie Tay,
• Pauline M. Rudd,
• Yang Yuansheng,
• Andre Choo,
• Ho Ying Swan and
• Terry Nguyen-Khuong

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2087–2099, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.176

• [Glu1]-Fibrinopeptide B Standard (Waters Corp.) was also used throughout the run to maintain mass accuracy. Dextran ladder (Waters Corp.) was run to obtain a calibration curve with a cubic spline fit. The retention times were normalized using the calibration curve to glucose units (GU). The data

An overview of the cycloaddition chemistry of fulvenes and emerging applications

• Ellen Swan,
• Kirsten Platts and
• Anton Blencowe

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2113–2132, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.209

• functionalised fulvene as the polydiene. Initially, a fulvene derivative (4-(cyclopenta-2,4-dien-1-ylidene)pentanoic acid) was conjugated to dextran, and employed in DAC at 37 °C with a dichloromaleic acid-modified PEG derivative (Scheme 20) [191]. The formed hydrogels exhibited self-healing at physiological

• [190]. Preparation of hydrogels via Diels–Alder cycloaddition with fulvene-conjugated dextran and dichloromaleic acid-modified poly(ethylene glycol) [191]. Ring-opening metathesis polymerisation of norbornene derivatives derived from fulvenes and maleimides to furnish facially amphiphilic polymers

Fluorogenic PNA probes

• Tirayut Vilaivan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 253–281, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.17

• ]. On the other hand, a polycationic comb-type dextran-poly(lysine) copolymer was shown to strongly promote the strand exchange of PNA–DNA duplexes by another DNA strand [110]. The equilibrium of the strand displacement reaction lies on the side of the more stable duplex, and so the original strand

Kinetic analysis of mechanoradical formation during the mechanolysis of dextran and glycogen

• Naoki Doi,
• Yasushi Sasai,
• Yukinori Yamauchi,
• Tetsuo Adachi,
• Masayuki Kuzuya and
• Shin-ichi Kondo

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1174–1183, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.116

• , Japan 10.3762/bjoc.13.116 Abstract A detailed electron spin resonance (ESR) analysis of mechanically induced free radicals (mechanoradicals) formation of glucose-based polysaccharides, dextran (Dx) and glycogen (Gly) was performed in comparison with amylose mechanoradicals. The ESR spectra of the

• structure. Keywords: dextran; electron spin resonance (ESR); glycogen; mechanoradical; polysaccharide; Introduction There are many reports on the mechanolysis of synthetic and natural polymers. It is well-known that mechanically induced radicals, so-called mechanoradicals, are produced by the mechanolysis

• initiate the polymerization is frequently used to synthesize such a graft polymer [7]. Dextran (Dx), a biodegradable polysaccharide, has been utilized as a graft copolymer backbone. The glycosidic linkages between the α-glucose units of Dx synthesized from Leuconostoc mesenteroides are composed of

Glyco-gold nanoparticles: synthesis and applications

• Federica Compostella,
• Olimpia Pitirollo,
• Alessandro Silvestri and
• Laura Polito

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1008–1021, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.100

• capped with the protein concanavalin A (ConA, physically adsorbed on the surface) and smaller dextran-coated AuNPs. ConA-AuNPs, immobilized on a glass slide, were treated with dextran-AuNPs and when the two particles interacted, a coupling of the plasmonic oscillations was detected, resulting in a shift

• surfaces, Russel and co-workers [45] employed trivalent α-thio-linked sialic residues as ligands of AuNPs, confirming the improving ability in binding selectively the human influenza strain. Detection of carbohydrate–peptide hormone interactions Dextran-coated AuNPs have been employed to investigate the

• binding properties of the glucose moiety displayed on a metal surface with insulin, a peptide hormone [86]. By means of a UV–vis spectroscopy assay, the authors confirmed the successful use of dextran-coated AuNPs to selectively bind low concentrations of insulin (at 1 pM), even in serum samples, and

Fluorescent carbon dots from mono- and polysaccharides: synthesis, properties and applications

• Stephen Hill and
• M. Carmen Galan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 675–693, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.67

• [13][24]. Similarly, important carbohydrate-based biopolymers such as cellulose, chitin, chitosan, dextran, cyclodextrin, and hyaluronic acid, which differ not only in elemental composition, but also in chemo-physical properties, have also been successfully utilised in the preparation of CDs, where

Towards potential nanoparticle contrast agents: Synthesis of new functionalized PEG bisphosphonates

• Souad Kachbi-Khelfallah,
• Maelle Monteil,
• Margery Cortes-Clerget,
• Evelyne Migianu-Griffoni,
• Jean-Luc Pirat,
• Olivier Gager,
• Julia Deschamp and
• Marc Lecouvey

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 1366–1371, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.130

• obtained must be stable in the various biological compartments and they must be stealthy to avoid the elimination by macrophages. For this purpose, appropriate coatings have already been reported [3][4]. Some of which consist in the NP surface modification using hydrophilic polymers (dextran, PEG) or

Supramolecular polymer assembly in aqueous solution arising from cyclodextrin host–guest complexation

• Jie Wang,
• Zhiqiang Qiu,
• Yiming Wang,
• Li Li,
• Xuhong Guo,
• Duc-Truc Pham,
• Stephen F. Lincoln and
• Robert K. Prud’homme

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 50–72, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.7

• -poly(ethylamine) strands substituted onto the dextran backbone of a poly(ethylene glycol)-b-poly(ethylamine)-g-dextran copolymer, PEG-PEI-dex, is considered to form the network underlying the supramolecular hydrogel formed in aqueous solution at pH 10 as shown in Figure 16a [96]. (The PEG-PEI-dex

Peptide–polymer ligands for a tandem WW-domain, an adaptive multivalent protein–protein interaction: lessons on the thermodynamic fitness of flexible ligands

• Katharina Koschek,
• Vedat Durmaz,
• Oxana Krylova,
• Marek Wieczorek,
• Shilpi Gupta,
• Martin Richter,
• Alexander Bujotzek,
• Christina Fischer,
• Rainer Haag,
• Christian Freund,
• Marcus Weber and
• Jörg Rademann

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 837–847, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.93

• Informationstechnik Berlin, Numerical Analysis and Modelling, Takustr. 7, 14195 Berlin, Germany 10.3762/bjoc.11.93 Abstract Three polymers, poly(N-(2-hydroxypropyl)methacrylamide) (pHPMA), hyperbranched polyglycerol (hPG), and dextran were investigated as carriers for multivalent ligands targeting the adaptive

• . In addition, concise differences were observed, pHPMA and hPG carriers showed moderate affinity and bound 2.3–2.8 peptides per protein binding site resulting in the formation of aggregates. Dextran-based conjugates displayed affinities down to 1.2 µM, forming complexes with low stoichiometry, and no

• precipitation. Experimental results were compared with parameters obtained from molecular dynamics simulations in order to understand the observed differences between the three carrier materials. In summary, the more rigid and condensed peptide–polymer conjugates based on the dextran scaffold seem to be

Formation of nanoparticles by cooperative inclusion between (S)-camptothecin-modified dextrans and β-cyclodextrin polymers

• Thorbjørn Terndrup Nielsen,
• Catherine Amiel,
• Laurent Duroux,
• Kim Lambertsen Larsen,
• Lars Wagner Städe,
• Reinhard Wimmer and
• Véronique Wintgens

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 147–154, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.14

• , ICMPE, CNRS and University Paris Est, 2 rue Henri Dunant, 94320 Thiais, France 10.3762/bjoc.11.14 Abstract Novel (S)-camptothecin–dextran polymers were obtained by “click” grafting of azide-modified (S)-camptothecin and alkyne-modified dextrans. Two series based on 10 kDa and 70 kDa dextrans were

• -cyclodextrin polymers. In aqueous solution nanoparticles were formed from association between the (S)-camptothecin–dextran polymers and the β-cyclodextrin polymers. Keywords: (S)-camptothecin; cyclodextrins; fluorescence; nanoparticles; ITC; Introduction Cancer remains to be the major cause of mortality in

• of nanoparticles. It has been shown that CD polymers can form nanoparticles when associated with various amphiphilic polymers such as dextran modified with fatty acid chains [15] or adamantane [16] in aqueous solution. Simply by mixing solutions of β-CD polymers and the hydrophobic-modified dextrans

Conjugates of methylated cyclodextrin derivatives and hydroxyethyl starch (HES): Synthesis, cytotoxicity and inclusion of anaesthetic actives

• Lisa Markenstein,
• Antje Appelt-Menzel,
• Marco Metzger and
• Gerhard Wenz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 3087–3096, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.325

• analogy to a procedure published by Nielsen et al. for the synthesis of β-CD-dextran polymers [28]. The degree of substitution of HES with propargyl groups, DSHES(propg), was determined by 1H NMR spectroscopy from the integral of the methylene protons of the propargyl groups H-12 at 4.75 ppm relative to

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

• hydroxy-activated polysaccharides with amino-terminated methoxy PEGs. The reaction was applied to inulin [63] and to a polysaccharide from Radix Ophiopogonis [64] for improving their pharmacokinetic properties. A similar activation of the sugar has been previously applied to a dextran for further

Stability of SG1 nitroxide towards unprotected sugar and lithium salts: a preamble to cellulose modification by nitroxide-mediated graft polymerization

• Guillaume Moreira,
• Laurence Charles,
• Mohamed Major,
• Florence Vacandio,
• Yohann Guillaneuf,
• Catherine Lefay and
• Didier Gigmes

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 1589–1600, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.181

• ], reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) [8][9][10], and nitroxide-mediated polymerization (NMP) [11], has opened new prospects in this research field, and permits precise tailoring of the synthetic chain length, the composition and the architecture [12]. Contrary to pullulan, dextran and

Cyanoethylation of the glucans dextran and pullulan: Substitution pattern and formation of nanostructures and entrapment of magnetic nanoparticles

• Kathrin Fiege,
• Heinrich Lünsdorf,
• Sevil Atarijabarzadeh and
• Petra Mischnick

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 551–566, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.63

• , Inhoffenstraße 7, D-38124 Braunschweig, Germany Fiber and Polymer Technology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Teknikringen 56-58, SE-10044 Stockholm, Sweden 10.3762/bjoc.8.63 Abstract Cyanoethylglucans with a degree of substitution in the range of 0.74 to 2.40 for dextran and 0.84 to 2.42 for pullulan were

• -forming qualities of cyanoethylpullulan [10]. Partial hydrophobization of polysaccharides by the introduction of nonpolar residues enables nanostructuring by self-assembly of these compounds. Heinze et al. demonstrated that hydrophobic dextran derivatives form spherical particles on the nanometer scale

• nanoparticles is usually mediated by carboxylate groups [19]. The interaction of magnetic nanoparticles, coated with glucans (cellulose, pullulan and dextran), with human cells was reported by Heinze et al. [17][20]. A prerequisite for any application in pharmaceutical as well as technological fields is the

Miniemulsion polymerization as a versatile tool for the synthesis of functionalized polymers

• Daniel Crespy and
• Katharina Landfester

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2010, 6, 1132–1148, doi:10.3762/bjoc.6.130

• active initiators based on PEG [87]. The hydrophilic layer thickness and surface coverage of non-dialyzed nanoparticles were estimated for various surfactant concentrations [88]. The investigation was carried out by the same group with a modified dextran as stabilizer [89]. An unconventional approach was

• variety of polymers, e.g., with epoxy, polyurethane (Figure 7), and polyurea, or based on synthetic polyamines, polythiourea, crosslinked starch, dextran or polyethylene imine [116]. Therefore, the functionality can be directly implemented in the capsules by using an excess of one of the monomers, or by

• resonance imaging (MRI) in polyurethane, polyurea, and crosslinked dextran shells [117][118]. No significant difference in the relaxation time (T1) between the encapsulated agent and the contrast agent in solution could be detected therefore making the capsules good candidates for MRI. Fluorescent dyes as