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A novel L-fuco-4-O-methyl-D-glucurono-D-xylan from Hyptis suaveolens
G O Aspinall1, P Capek, R C Carpenter
1Department of Chemistry, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Carbohydrate Research
|July 18, 1991
Abstract:
The acidic polysaccharide from the seed-coat mucilage of Hyptis suaveolens is a highly branched L-fuco-4-O-methyl-D-glucurono-D-xylan for which a structure is proposed having a 4-linked beta-D-xylan backbone carrying side chains of single 4-O-methyl-alpha-D-glucuronic acid residues at O-2 and 2-O-L-fucopyranosyl-D-xylopyranose units at O-3. The structural analysis involves base-catalyzed beta-elimination of uronic acid residues from the methylated glycan followed by degradation using a modified Svensson oxidation-elimination sequence.