Bioorganic chemistry

Bioorganic chemistry: Carbohydrate chemistry; biosynthesis of deoxy sugars; utilisation of bacterial enzymes for synthetic applications; chemo-enzymatic syntheses of glycosides and derivatives thereof; modification of plant and bacterial polysaccharides for personal care and foods applications.

Drittmittelgeber:

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Unilever Research

Veröffentlichungen:

A. Naundorf , W. Klaffke: Syntheses of inhibitors for the enzyme dTDP-glucose-4,6-dehydratase (EC 4.2.1.46), Carbohydr. Res., in press.

W. Klaffke: The enzyme dTDP-glucose-4,6-dehydratase as a tool for the synthesis of deoxy sugars, in "New Perspectives in Bioorganic Chemistry" (U. Diederichsen, T.K. Lindhorst, B. Westermann, L. Wessjohann, Eds.), Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, in press.

Dissertation:

A. Naundorf: Synthesis of Affinity Ligands and Intermediates in the Biosynthesis of Thymidine Diphosphate-activated Deoxy Hexoses, Hamburg, 1997.