The L-iduronic acid (IdoA) residue is a critically important structural component in heparan sulphate polysaccharide for the biological functions. The pyranose ring of IdoA is present in (1)C4-chair, (2)SO-skew boat, and less frequently, in (4)C1-chair conformations. Here, we analyzed the conformation of IdoA residue in eight hexasaccharides by NMR. The data demonstrate a correlation between th...

In analogy to cyclic codes, we study linear codes over finite fields obtained from left ideals in a quotient ring of a (non commutative) skew polynomial ring. The paper shows how existence and properties of such codes are linked to arithmetic properties of skew polynomials. This class of codes is a generalization of the θ-cyclic codes discussed in [1]. However θ-cyclic codes are performant repr...

R is called commuting regular ring (resp. semigroup) if for each x,y $in$ R there exists a $in$ R such that xy = yxayx. In this paper, we introduce the concept of commuting $pi$-regular rings (resp. semigroups) and study various properties of them.

A skew Laurent polynomial ring S = R[x;α] is reversible if it has a reversing automorphism, that is, an automorphism θ of period 2 that transposes x and x and restricts to an automorphism γ of R with γ = γ. We study invariants for reversing automorphisms and apply our methods to determine the rings of invariants of reversing automorphisms of the two most familiar examples of simple skew Laurent...