“…, .~.~ of the arabinose unit falls in a range which has often been taken as an indication of a-configuration (17,18). More recently, however, the value of this coupling constant, as well as J;.,,,.,, has been reported (19) not to be diagnostic on its own, owing to the high conformational mobility of arabinopyranosides ( T I @ 'C,) (20). Finally, shift values (6 66.5 and 6 64.2) attributed (Table 1, Py-d,) to A-4 and A-5, respectively, accorded neither with the corresponding values (6 69.1 and 6 66.6, respectively) given for reference methyl a-L-arabinopyranoside nor with the values (6 70.8 and 6 63.9, respectively) given (21) for methyl P-L-arabinopyranoside.…”