Carbohydrates / Polysaccharides - Structure elucidation - Chromatographic seperation of polysaccharides

6 important questions on Carbohydrates / Polysaccharides - Structure elucidation - Chromatographic seperation of polysaccharides

How can molecules differe form eachoter?

  • Charge
  • Size
  • Conformation
  • Polarity

What kind of Chrmatography methods are there?

  • Anion-exchange
  • Size Exclusion
  • Adsorption
  • Affinity

How does adsorption chromatography work?

Here you add a solvent and the more solvent you add the more difficult structures will be adsorbed.
So firs the linear polypeptides and later the branched.
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How does chromatography by size exclusion go?

In the colon is a gel with different pore sizes. The bigger molecules will not attach to the pores and go trough inmediatly. The smaller ones will stick and take longer to go trough the colon.

Polysacharides DO NOT absorve UV light so detection is done by the refrective index in cobination iwth light scattering and or viscometric ditection.

How does anion exchange chromatography work?

Separates neutral and charged molecules.
The neutral ones will go out first, then the charged molecules. 

By adding a salt or pH gradient you can let the charged molecules louse out of the colum. First the low charged ones will leave and later the more charged ones.

What can you say about the charge and the buffer?

The more buffer you needed the more charge there is. So B has more charge.

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