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Course, academic year 2025/2026
  
   
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
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 -

Obligatory:

  • Stick, Robert V., Williams, Spencer J.. Carbohydrates, the essential molecules of life. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2009, s. ISBN 978-0-240-52118-3.

Last update: Parkan Kamil (15.03.2026)
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:

Orientate oneself in the issues of selective protection of polyfunctional molecules and preparation of suitable synthons

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 (31.03.2026)
Registration requirements -

Organic chemistry A or Organic chemistry I

Last update: Šimák Ondřej (31.01.2026)
 
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