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Course, academic year 2023/2024
  
   
Chemistry of Saccharides and Biopolymers - M342010
Title: Chemie sacharidů a biopolymerů
Guaranteed by: Department of Chemistry of Natural Compounds (342)
Faculty: Faculty of Food and Biochemical Technology
Actual: from 2019 to 2026
Semester: winter
Points: winter s.:3
E-Credits: winter s.:3
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
Qualifications:  
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: Šimák Ondřej Ing. Ph.D.
Interchangeability : N342013
Annotation -
The course is focused on understanding the physical, chemical and biological properties of carbohydrates as a group of organic compounds important for living organisms. The course includes an overview of basic monosaccharide transformations and proposals for the synthesis of carbohydrate derivatives. An overview of oligo- and polysaccharides is given along with their occurrence in nature. The nature of the interactions of carbohydrate derivatives with proteins and their influence in living systems is shown.
Last update: Šimák Ondřej (31.01.2026)
Literature -

R: Boons G.J. (red.), Carbohydrate Chemistry, Blackie 1998.

R: Steglich W., et al. (red.), Natural Products, Thieme 2000.

Last update: Šimák Ondřej (02.09.2024)
Syllabus -

1. Nomenclature of carbohydrates, Fischer formulas, spatial representation

2. Properties and reactions of monosaccharides

3. Glycosides, their significance, formation and cleavage

4. Manipulation of a polyfunctional molecule, ester and ether protecting groups. Introduction, stability, deprotection

5. Manipulation of a polyfunctional molecule, acetal protecting groups and protection of amines. Introduction, stability, deprotection

6. Preparation and reactivity of anhydro- and halogen derivatives of carbohydrates

7. Oxidation and reduction. Amino- and thiosaccharides

8. Deoxysaccharides and unsaturated carbohydrates

9. C-Glycosides, C-disaccharides and iminosaccharides

10. Oligo- and polysaccharides

11. Carbohydrate code, lectins, recognition at the cellular level

12. Solid-phase synthesis (oligonucleotides and oligosaccharides). Bioactivity of substances derived from carbohydrates

13. Identification of carbohydrates. Analytical methods and examples of their use

14. Final summary

Last update: Šimák Ondřej (31.01.2026)
Learning resources -

Lecture notes

Last update: Fialová Jana (20.12.2017)
Learning outcomes -

Students will be able to:

Design synthetic strategies for modifications of polyfunctional molecules

Understand the stereochemistry of chiral compounds

Have a basic understanding of the interactions of carbohydrate derivatives with proteins and their role in living systems

Last update: Šimák Ondřej (31.01.2026)
Registration requirements -

Organic chemistry A or Organic chemistry I

Last update: Šimák Ondřej (31.01.2026)
 
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