The alkene group of allyl α-L-rhamnopyranoside has been converted to an N-acryloyl spacer arm which was copolymerized with acrylamide to afford water soluble carbohydrate copolymers; these have antigenic properties demonstrated by their binding to Ricinus communis lectin and to the antisera to the capsular polysaccharide of Streptococcus pneumoniae type 23.
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Roy et al. (1988) studied this question.