Shiro Kobayashi, Akira Makino, Naoki Tachibana
May 19, 2006
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Macromolecular Rapid Communications
Abstract
A chitin-xylan hybrid polysaccharide having β(1→4)-linked alternating structure of N-acetyl-D-glucos-amine and D-xylose was synthesized via chitinase-catalyzed polymerization. An oxazoline derivative of D-xylosyl-β(1→ 4)-N-acetyl-D-glucosamine (1) was effectively polymerized by the catalysis of chitinase from Bacillus sp., giving rise to a water-soluble chitin-xylan hybrid polysaccharide (2) in good yields. Molecular weights (M n ) of 2 reached 1500, which corresponds to 8-10 saccharide units.