%0 Generic %9 Master's Thesis %A Tugwell, Thomas %D 2019 %F pittir:35768 %K Antibodies, Blood Plasma %T Gram-Scale Synthesis of Type-A and Type-B Blood Antigens %U http://d-scholarship-dev.library.pitt.edu/35768/ %X Described in the thesis is the design and implementation of novel synthetic procedures that allow for the gram-scale preparation of Type-B blood antigen as well as efforts towards the gram scale preparation of Type-A blood antigen. The prepared synthetic Type-A and –B blood antigens are equipped with an amino linker at their reducing ends that allow for ready conjugations to biocompatible solid supports and surfaces.