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The wish to study conformations of saccharides came in 1973 when I heard a lecture by Otto Westphal on bacterial endotoxins. Since then one of my main goals has been to find the conformation of “the endotoxic principle”, Lipid A. This is a disaccharide227 consisting of two glucosamines, heavily substituted with long fatty acids, ester-bound and amide-bound. Therefore215 we began developing a potential energy function for saccharides, starting with glucose.
Schemes lightly made come to nothing, but with long planning they succeed
Proverbs XV, 22
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Rasmussen, K. (1985). Applications: Saccharides. In: Potential Energy Functions in Conformational Analysis. Lecture Notes in Chemistry, vol 37. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45591-9_5
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