Polymerizable sugar esters

Kitagawa M, Tokiwa Y (1997), Enzymatic s3mthesis of polymerizable sugar ester and its chemical polymerization , Carbohydr Lett, 2, 343-348. 

The most successful approach in covalent molecular imprinting is probably the coupling of polymerizable boronic acids to hydroxyl groups present on the template to form boronate esters (Figure 2.2). This approach has, for example, been applied to the imprinting of sugars [57-59]. 

Polymerizable esters of sugars are made by treatment of sugars with methacrylic anhydride and pyridine (112). 

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