Artificial Sugar-sensing Systems utilizing Photoinduced Electron Transfer PET

Artificial Sugar-sensing Systems utilizing Photoinduced Electron Transfer (PET) 

The diboronic acids 23 and 24 form rigid cyclic complexes with chiral monosaccharides and disaccharides this is the origin of the CD observations. The induced chirality upon formation of rigid, chiral complexes was monitored by CD spectroscopy, and this rigidification process can be utilized in the design of spectroscopic 

Many monosaccharides possess at least two binding sites, by which they may be distinguished from each other. Thus, by careful manipulation of the spatial disposition of two 2-aminomethylphenylboronic acid groups, it should be possible to con- 

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