Carbohydrate oligomers and polymers—including cellulose, a component of plant cell walls, and hyaluronan, an extracellular matrix material in joints and neural tissues—play many essential roles in ...

OLIGOSACCHARIDES continue to defy convenient and inexpensive production through automated synthesis. Also called glycans, these assemblies of linked sugar monomers are of immense importance ...

Dehydration synthesis is the creation of larger molecules from smaller monomers where a water molecule is released. This can be used in the creation of synthetic polymers such as polyethylene ...