Abstract Carbohydrates (saccharides) are very important in life action. They are abundant in nature as stable structure. In past decades, saccharide-based compounds and materials have been paid more and more attention in chemistry, biology, medicine and materials. However, the part structural formula of saccharide was wrong in some publications, which cause confusion to readers. In this paper, based on discussing the chair conformation of cyclohexane, the strategy on deducing and drawing structural units of monosaccharide, oligosaccharide and polysaccharide has been summarized, which is very useful to understand related contents in publications. It is also very useful to authors for drawing related structures.
WANG Rong-Min, WANG Jian-Feng, WANG Qian-Qian, Qian Li-Zhong, HE Yu-Feng. Strategy for Drawing Structural Units of Common Carbohydrates[J]. Chinese Journal of Chemical Education, 2017, 38(10): 14-19.
