Talk:Oligosaccharide nomenclature

Renaming article to "Oligosaccharide and polysaccharide nomenclature"

Wouldn't it be more accurate if the title referred to polysaccharide nomenclature as well? --kupirijo (talk) 09:52, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

From left to right?

You have written this: "The reducing and non-reducing ends of an oligosaccharide are conventionally drawn with the reducing-end monosaccharide residue furthest to the right and the non-reducing (or terminal) end furthest to the left. Naming of oligosaccharides proceeds from left to right (from the reducing end to the terminal)".

I thinks it is a bit contradictory. Should I proceed from left to right or from the reducing end (right) to the terminal end (left)?

Besides, there is a newsletter with the title "NOMENCLATURE COMMITTEE OF IUB (NC-IUB) IUB-IUPAC JOINT COMMISSION ON BIOCHEMICAL NOMENCLATURE (JCBN). NEWSLETTER January 1983" that states that residues in an oligosaccharid chain are numbered from the reducing end from right to left. The reference is: [1].

I'm not an expert but I think this nomenclature is a mess and probably it has changed recently.Miguelferig (talk) 21:57, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

The structure of ((1→2)-α-D-galacto)-(1→4)-β-D-Glucan at the bottom of the article is incorrect

In the figure, galactose is connected via C-4 to the C-2 of glucose. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.232.82.36 (talk) 11:07, 2 February 2017 (UTC)

I would like to second this. I noticed this problem on the page and came to the talk page to report it and arrived to find the above user had beat me to it. I agree with them, what is depicted is (**4**→2)-α-D-galacto)-(1→4)-β-D-Glucan not a (**1**→2)-α-D-galacto)... as it is labeled as.199.94.1.205 (talk) 20:22, 21 November 2019 (UTC)