A Haworth structure is shown for glucosamine in the article. Draw glucosamine in its most stable chair conformation. Draw glucosamine as an open chain compound in a Fisher projection.

Is the glucosamine shown as the alpha- or beta-anomer? Using the parent chain numbering system for glucose, give a more specific name for this amine derivative of glucose.

Using Haworth formulas, draw a structure for chitosan, polyglucosamine. The polymer contains beta-(1-4') glucosidic linkages.

Modify the drawing above to produce chitin, poly N-acetylglucosamine.

By what reaction procedure could the chitin be deacylated to form chitosan? What is the by-product of the reaction?

By what reaction procedure could the chitin be depolymerized?