Bonding in carbohydrates

Some Suggestions for Modeling Hydrogen Bonding in Carbohydrates... 

This reagent also can cleave the C(l)—C(2) bond in carbohydrates. 

As neutron diffraction and more accurate X-ray crystal structure analyses have become available, it is clear that this configuration 1 is quite common in the crystal structures of many biological small molecules. Surveys of the peptide NH 0=C hydrogen bond [56] and hydrogen bonds in carbohydrates [57-59], amino acids [60], purines and pyrimidines [61] and nucleosides and nucleotides [62] indicate that between 25% and 40% of the bonds in a sample of structures may be of this type. 

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Gritsan VN, Panov VP, Kachur VG (1983) Theoretical analysis of hydrogen bonds in carbohydrate crystals. Carbohydr Res 112 11-21... 

Steiner, T., and Saenger, W., Geometry of C H—0 hydrogen bonds in carbohydrate crystal structures. Analysis of neutron diffraction data, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 114, 10146-10154 (1992). 

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