Molecular Modeling of Two Disaccharides Containing Fructopyranose Linked to Glucopyranose

Abstract
Ramachandran energy surfaces for the disaccharides leucrose and turanose were computed using MM3. For each molecule, thirty-two combinations of hydroxyl and primary alcohol group orientations were considered. The calculations used a dielectric constant of 4.0 and the maps were generated on a 20° grid-spacing. The models compared well with the corresponding crystal structures except for significant deviations in some of the anomeric C-O bond lengths.

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