Do Inulin Oligomers Adopt a Regular Helical Form in Solution?
- 1 August 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Carbohydrate Chemistry
- Vol. 13 (6) , 859-872
- https://doi.org/10.1080/07328309408011686
Abstract
The 13C NMR spectra of inulin oligomers in D2O with degree of polymerization (DP) of 3 through 9, along with two other inulin oligomer mixtures of average DP = 17 and DP = 31 were recorded. Significant variations in the chemical shift of some fructofuranose carbon signals indicates that unlike glucans, simple helical structures are not the predominant conformation for inulin oligomers—at least up to DP = 9. Models of the DP = 5 oligomer show that it should prefer a single helical conformation which however, would not be accessible to longer DP oligomers due to severe steric interactions.Keywords
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