PHENYL-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE

white powder

Phenyl β-D-glucopyranoside can be used:

• As a starting material for the synthesis of various derivatives of β-D-glucopyranosides with potential application as anti-HIV agents.
• As a model for glycosides in the gas phase for their spectroscopic investigation.
• As an internal standard in GC and GC-MS quantitative analyses.

ChEBI: Phenyl beta-D-glucopyranoside is a glycoside.

Moderately toxic by intraperitoneal route. When heated to decomposition it emits acrid smoke and irritating vapors.

Phenyl--D-glucopyranoside recrystallises from H2O with 2H2O and can be dried in vacuo at 100o/P2O5. The dry preparation has [] 25D -70.7o (c 2, H2O). [Robertson & Waters J Chem Soc 2729 1930, IR: Bunton et al. J Chem Soc 4419 1955, Takahashi Yakugaku Zasshi (J Pharm Soc Jpn) 74 7436 1954, Whixtler & House Anal Chem 25 1463 1953, UV: Lewis J Am Chem Soc 57 898 1935.] It is a substrate for D-glucosidase [deBryne Eur J Biochem 102 257 1979]. [Beilstein 17 III/V 2946.]