Department of Polymer Science, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060, Japan
Abstract:
A new type polyamide containing a glucose unit in the main chain has been synthesized by the polymerization of C1, C3, C4 blocked C6-carboxymethylglucosamine, prepared from chitin. The deblocking procedure gave the water-soluble polyamide, of MW 1.5 × 104, which can be regarded as a model for the recognition site of lectin.