Future Trends and Scope on Circular Dichroism in Saccharides

5 Future Trends and Scope on Circular Dichroism in Saccharides 

The CD of saccharides has been less documented than those of proteins and nucleic acids, because of the difficulty of the CD in the VUV region. Snyder et al.247,248) reported the useful application of synchrotron orbital radiation (SOR) for VUV CD measurements. SOR from modem electron storage rings is highly linearly polarized and more intense than conventional VUV continuum sources. These properties make SOR ideal for CD measurements because of the better signal-to-noise ratio resulting 

CD documentation may become more feasible by use of SOR for VUV CD measurements, which would be applied to more biological samples such as viruses and cell walls containing saccharides or glycoproteins. 

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