University of Birmingham, England

Department of Medical Biochemistry and Pharmacology, The Medical School, University of Birmingham, England... 

By W. G. Overend, The Pennsylvania State College, U. S. A., and Chemistry Department, University of Birmingham, England, and M. Stacey, Chemistry Department, University of Birmingham, England... 

The success of 24 and its cousins can be extended by attaching extra functionalities to improve selectivity towards chosen saccharide derivatives. For instance, glucosamine can be specified in its protonated form by modifying 24 with an azacrown ether. The latter unit is known to bind ammonium ions and 9-anthrylmethyl azacrown is a luminescent PET system of 15 years standing [76], 95, due to Cooper and James at the University of Birmingham, England,... 

By the method just described, and largely through the work of Nobel Prize winner Sir W. N. Haworth (of the University of Birmingham, England), it has been established that the six-membered ring is the common one in the glycosides of aldohexoses. Evidence of other kinds (enzymatic hydrolysis, x-ray analysis) indicates that the free aldohexoses, too, contain six-membered rings. 

M. Tremayne, B. M. Kariuki and K. D. M. Harris, OCTOPUS Monte Carlo Technique for Powder Structure Solution, 1997, Universities of Birmingham, England, and St Andrews, Scotland. 

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