Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol.133, No.4, 768-770, 2011
Highly Selective Oligosaccharide Sensing by a Curdlan-Polythiophene Hybrid
An in situ hybrid complex of Curdlan with water-soluble polythiophene functioned as a highly sensitive and selective saccharide chemosensor in aqueous media, enabling us to discriminate tetrasaccharide acarbose at 1 mu M from 24 mono-, di-, tri-, tetra-, and pentasaccharides.