Timely Research Perspectives in Carbohydrate Chemistry
edited by Walther Schmid
and Arnold E. Stütz

This book includes a collection of minireviews and research papers written by international leaders in the field of carbohydrate chemistry as well as promising young talents.

The contents of the contributions span from natural products over structure elucidation with special emphasis on spectroscopy, syntheses and synthetic methods, biological activities, applications of carbohydrates and carbohydrate mimetics as well as their use as molecular scaffolds and carriers of biological information.

Timely Research Perspectives in Carbohydrate Chemistry provides a representative overview of state-of-the-art research topics and approaches.

Contents

1. Invited Reviews
   1. Lipases as Useful Tools for the Stereo- and Regioselective Protection and Deprotection of Carbohydrates
   2. Carbohydrate-Based Scaffolds for the Generation of Sortiments of Bioactive Compounds
   3. Conversionsof Nitroalkyl to Carbonyl Groups in Carbohydrates
   4. From Lianas to Glycobiology Tools: Twenty-five Years of 2,5-Dideoxy-2,5-imino-D-mannitol

2. Contributions
   5. Rearrangements in the Course of Fluorination by Diethylaminosulfur Trifluoride at C-2 of Glycopyranosides: Some New Parameters
   6. Allyl Protecting Group Mediated Intramolecular Aglycon Delivery (IAD) of Glycosyl Fluorides
   7. Zinc-Mediated Fragmentation of Methyl 6-Deoxy-6-iodo-hexopyranosides
   8. Reactivity Tournament of Isothiocyanato-Functionalized Saccharides with 1,6-Diamino-3,6-oxaoctane
   9. Photochemical Transformation of LevoglucosanImides to Anhydrosugar-Annelated Azepanediones and Azocanediones
   10. Synthesis and Biological Activityof a Series of Methylene-Expanded Oxetanocin Nucleoside Analogues
   11. Thiosugars VI: A Simple Stereoselective Approach to (1=AE3)-3-S-Thiodisaccharides from Levoglucosenone
   12. Synthesis of Sulfur-Containing Analogues of αGalNAc (Tn-Antigen) and βGal1,3aGalNAc (T-Antigen)
   13. The Chameleon of Retaining Glycoside Hydrolases and Retaining Glycosyl Transferases: The Catalytic Nucleophile
   14. N-Alkylated Derivatives of 1,5-Dideoxy-1,5-iminoxylitolas β-Xylosidase and β-Glucosidase Inhibitorsa
   15. Synthesis of C-8 Deuterated Glycosides of 3-Deoxy-D-manno-oct-2-ulosonic Acid (Kdo) Related to Chlamydial Lipopolysaccharides
   16. Carbohydrate Auxiliaries in Stereoselective Syntheses of Decahydroquinoline Alkaloids
   17. Analysis of Carbohydrate Mixtures by Diffusion Difference NMR Spectroscopy

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