“…One of the most versatile precursors is based on the preparation of HA-aldehyde and subsequent conjugation with biologically active N-nucleophiles (Mero, Pasqualin, Campisi, Renier, & Pasut, 2013) or with polyamine to form hydrogels (Li, Fu & Zhang, 2014). The main advantage of the aldehydic groups is their ability to react with a wide range of the amino compounds even under the physiological conditions (Emoto et al, 2014). Direct oxidation of a macromolecular chain of HA is based either on cleavage of a vicinal diol with sodium periodate in the positions 2 and 3 of GlcNAc (Kuo, 2005;Wang, Oommen, Yan, & Warghese, 2013), or on the oxidation of the position 6 of GlcNAc with TEMPO/NaClO Sedova et al, 2013) eventually with Dess-Martin periodate (Buffa, Kettou, Pospíšilová, Berková & Velebný, 2011;Šedova et al, 2013).…”