| Carbohydrates are valuable and safe sources for the synthesis of biopolymers. Today, synthetic polymers having saccharides as
pedant groups are one of the great interests in biochemistry and the medicinal field. In this work, with the aim of preparing the
new glyco-copolymer, firstly isopropylidene derivative of α-D-glucofuranose was synthesized from the reaction of acetone with
the glucose in the presence of sulphuric acid as catalyst. Then the obtained compound separately reacted with acryloyl chloride
and ρ-(chloromethyl)styrene monomers to produce related vinylic type glycomonomers. The synthesized glycomonomers were
purified using column chromatography. Characterization of the synthesized vinylic glycomonomers was carried out using
elemental analysis, fourier transform infrared (FT-IR), Carbon-13 nuclear magnetic resonance (13C NMR) and proton nuclear
magnetic resonance (1H NMR) spectroscopy. In the next step, the obtained glycomonomers were copolymerized in 1:1 ratio via a
fast and easy free radical polymerization technique. The obtained copolymer showed good solubility in various solvents such as
tetrahydrofuran, chloroform, ethyl acetate, and some of the other organic solvents. Finally, water-soluble glyco-copolymer was
obtained via partial hydrolysis. The structure of the isolated copolymers determined using the 1H NMR, gel permeation chromatography (GPC), and FT-IR spectroscopy |