Nature's Dendrimer: Characterizing Amylopectin as a Multivalent Host

摘要

Molecular structure defines the chemical and physical properties of species ranging from small molecules to very large biopolymers like polysaccharides. Detailed structural information on polysaccharides is very difficult to obtain, and they are therefore often described either schematically or as "averaged" structures, obscuring the molecular detail. Herein, we present the development of a small supramolec-ular probe that yields detailed structural features of the starch polysaccharide, amylopectin.