Talk:Glycosidic bond

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ok so i just fixed it Amaher 12:16, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Amaher 12:15, 16 May 2007 (UTC) There is a mistake on the diagram at the rop of the page; it is ethanol reacting with glucose in the picture, but the caption says methanol.

cheers A Amaher 12:15, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Hi, I'm Two questions 1. is cellulostic 'beta acetal bond the one that holds links saccarides into polysaccarides 2. if it is why is it so difficult to break chemically?

I'd like to know because I'm blogging about biofuels (though in the distant past I studied synthetic polymer chemistry) and breaking cellulose into simple sugars is one way to greatly increase the amout of fermentable material available for ethanol prodcution. All I can offer in terms of recompense for your time and effort is publication on the Big Biofuels Blog

Biofuelsimon 11:23, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

trying to undestand why enzymes are the only things that can break the cellulostic beta acetal bond.

what is this all about? im so bad at chemistry! majorly stuck on an assignment!!

If you don't have enough background in chemistry, you've got to start at the very beginning (e.g: covalent bonds, ionic bonds etc... ) because this stuff is advance in some sort--it is a part of Biochemistry II.

Good luck!

Some people spell this as glucosidic.. is this wrong or just an alternative? 203.218.87.192 01:45, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

"Glucoside" and "glucosidic" refer to a glycoside in which the sugar part is glucose. So every glucoside is a glycoside, but not vice versa. AxelBoldt 03:46, 9 April 2006 (UTC)