page_title: Glycosyl
section_title: Alternative substituent groups
hierarchical_section_title: Glycosyl / Alternative substituent groups
caption_attribution_description: English: author=kupirijo
context_page_description: A glycosyl group is a univalent free radical or substituent structure obtained by removing the hemiacetal hydroxyl group from the cyclic form of a monosaccharide and, by extension, of a lower oligosaccharide.
  Glycosyl also reacts with inorganic acids, such as phosphoric acid, forming an ester such as glucose 1-phosphate.
context_section_description: Instead of the hemiacetal hydroxyl group, a hydrogen atom can be removed to form a substituent, for example the hydrogen from the C3 hydroxyl of a glucose molecule. Then the substituent is called D-glucopyranos-3-O-yl as it appears in the name of the drug Mifamurtide.
  Recent detection of the Au³⁺ in living organism was possible through the use of C-glycosyl pyrene, where it’s permeability through cell membrane and fluorescence properties were used to detect Au³⁺.
caption: The β-D-glucopyranose-3-O-yl group which is obtained by the removal of a hydrogen from the C3 hydroxyl of β-D-glucopyranose
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