Polysaccharides crystal structure bibliography

Marchessault, Robert H., and Sun-dararajan, Pudupadi R., Bibliography of Crystal Structures of Polysaccharides (1967-1974), 33,387-404... 

This article is the third in the current series on the bibliography of crystal structures of polysaccharides.1,2 In the past decade, many advances in the methods for building theoretical models were witnessed, not only for the conformational analysis of isolated chains, but also for the subsequent or simultaneous packing of the chains in the crystallographic lattice. Many complex polysaccharides, having disaccharide to hexasaccharide repeating units, are now being studied. 

Because of automation (computing, and the development of direct methods ), crystal-structure determination has become a more routine laboratory tool for the majority of compounds with less than fifty carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen atoms, provided, of course, that suitable single crystals can be obtained. For this reason, it was decided that an annual bibliography which summarizes the results of application of this method to carbohydrates, nucleosides, and nucleotides and their derivatives would now be of value to carbohydrate chemists. The crystallography of the polysaccharides presents different problems and will not be included this subject was discussed in Voliune 22 of this Series. A bibliography of the structures of 92 carbohydrates and 42 nucleosides and nucleotides studied between 1935 and 1970 has been published. ... 

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