With over 40 years experience in carbohydrate research, Chris has developed a huge network of carbohydrate sources covering worldwide commercial producers, academic research groups (chemists, biochemists, botanists etc) and industrial labs working in chemical, biotech and pharmaceutical research. He has also access to a number of collections of rare sugars only available through individuals working in academia, biotech and pharmaceutical companies.
If you have a requirement for a carbohydrate we can probably tell you if it exists (or has ever been made or extracted) and if so to source it for you (or even how to make it!).
We cover rare and exotic structures (eg tumor related antigens, glycoconjugates, marine saponins, bacterial polysaccharides), synthetic intermediates (eg sugar triflates, methylated sugars, thioglycosides, halogenated derivatives). We can also source carbohydrates in bulk quantities for food and pharmaceutical development (eg mannose, galactose, maltose, inulin, carrageenan).
Click here to launch our carbohydrate sourcing service enquiry form where you can inform us about your specific needs. We need to know as much as you can tell us about the compound you are interested in including its name (or structure), how much you want, its source, how pure you want it and if you know of any literature on it.
We will then come back to you with a response which may be that we can readily source it for you or that it will take some effort and we will need to do some work to get hold of the material or even that we cannot help.