Biomolecular Modelling: An Interactive Program for the Visualization and Modelling of Carbohydrate (Starch and Oligosaccharide) Complexes in Solution

Abstract

Abstract Computer aided molecular modelling has been used to study the solution‐conformation of various complexes of amylose. The preferred conformation of the complexes is determined by the HSEA Hard‐Spheres Exo‐Anomeric effect) method using the interactive computer program CAOS (Conformational Analysis of Oligosaccharides). NMR spectroscopy (nOe experiments, relaxation time measurements and the observation of local shielding) can follow and prove the conformation changes in solution.