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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jul 21.
Published in final edited form as: Analyst. 2016 May 16;141(14):4305–4312. doi: 10.1039/c6an00549g

Scheme 1.

Scheme 1

Synthetic route to glycosylated gold nanoparticles: (A) polymerisation of N-hydroxyethyl acrylamide using a pentafluorophenyl functional RAFT agent (B) post-polymerisation of pHEA with amino-sugars and immobilisation of carbohydrate terminal polymers onto preformed 60 nm gold nanoparticles.