W.F.J. Hogendorf, V. Jagalski, T. Günther Pomorski, M. Bols, M. Cárdenas, and C.M. Pedersen (2013).
Synthesis and thermotropic phase behavior of four glycoglycerolipids.
Molecules 18(11): 41–50.
doi: 10.3390/molecules181113546
Four glycoglycerolipids with different head groups have been synthesized and their physicochemical properties studied. The lengths of the head groups from a mono-saccharide to a trisaccharide, in addition to the anomeric stereochemistry for the smaller glycoglycerolipids, have been modified. The synthesis has been optimized to avoid glycerol epimerization and to allow up-scaling. The physicochemical properties of the glycoglycerolipids were studied and a strong de-mixing of the gel-phase, depending on the head-group, was observed.