Department of Organic Chemistry, Arrhenius Laboratory, University of Stockholm, S-106 91 Stockholm Sweden
State Serum Institute, DK-2300 Copenhagen S Denmark
Abstract:
The structure of the capsular polysaccharide elaborated by Streptococcus pneumonia type 37 has been investigated; methylation analysis, Smith degradation, and n.m.r. spectroscopy were the principal methods used. It is concluded that the polysaccharide is composed of disaccharide repeating-units having the following structure.
This comb-like structure is very crowded, which influences the n.m.r. spectra of the polysaccharide.