The chemical modification of carbohydrates has been used extensively in order to investigate specificity of binding in biological processes. Inclusion of one or more fluorine atoms into a carbohydrate molecule can have minimal impact upon molecular recognition due to the small size of the fluorine atom, making fluorinated carbohydrate analogues an important class of biological probes.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bl.uk/oai:ethos.bl.uk:490347 |
| Date | January 2008 |
| Creators | Purser, Sophie |
| Publisher | University of Oxford |
| Source Sets | Ethos UK |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
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