Nanostructured styrenic copolymers containing glucopyranosyl residues and their functionalization

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Sugar-based co-polymers with saccharidic units in stable cyclic form and nanometric morphologies stabilized through crosslinking, adaptable through specific functionalizations to biochemical interaction studies with copper-containing amine oxidases, were synthesized from appropriate monomers and macromonomers. The most promising nanospherical co-polymer obtained, containing b-D-glucopyranosidic units, was employed in functionalization reactions with the help of model molecules, achieving useful transformations mainly at the 6-position and to a minor extent at the 2-position of the saccharidic system.

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