Alcohols and Sugar Recognition

Use of porphyrin-based receptors for sugar recognition provides some advantages because the sensitive probing ability of porphyrins greatly helps in the detection of interaction with carbohydrates, which are, in general, spectroscopically poor substrates. 

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The chirality of carbohydrates were sensitively delected by complexation with porphyrin 83 and by observing the induced CD spectra.One carbohydrate molecule can bind two boronic-acid-appended porphyrins 83 using four hydroxy groups. The exciton coupling between two porphyrins in the CD spectra was used to detect the absolute configuration of the polyols. 

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