Title: Development of Sugar-Based Materials for Biological Devices
Volume: 12
Issue: 3
Author(s): Yuji Mikata and Shigenobu Yano
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Carbohydrates, metal, porphyrin, nucleic acids, biological activity of the complex, macrocycles, β-lactams, β-C-glycosylation, bioactive molecules, metal complexes, peptide synthesis, anomeric oxygen atoms, peptide-based drug candidates, apical atoms
Abstract: Recent progresses of our group dealing with newly developed sugar-based ligands and their metal complexes have been reviewed. Carbohydrate moiety affects on the stereochemistry around the metal center and controls the biological activity of the complex.