Frontiers in Modern Carbohydrate Chemistry

Abstract

1. Synthesis of modified monosaccharides as biological probes and therapeutic agents 1.1 Synthesis of 9-Substituted Sialic Acids As Probes for CD22-Ligand Interactions on B cells 1.2 Uncommon Sugars and Their Conjugates to Natural Products 1.3 Plant Cell Wall Glycans: Chemical Synthesis of the Branched Sugar Aceric Acid 1.4 Iodoamidation of Glycals: A Facile Preparation of 2-Deoxy-N-glycosylamides 2. New methods for stereoselective O-glycosylation 2.1 Stereocontrolled Glycosylation: Recent Advances: ?-D-Rhamnosides and ?-D-Mannans 2.2 Stereoselective Glycosylations Using Chiral Auxiliaries 2.3 Protecting Groups in Carbohydrate Chemistry Profoundly Influence All Selectivities in Glycosyl Couplings 2.4 Synthesis of N-5-Derivatives of Neuraminic Acid and their Application as Sialosyl Donors 3. New strategies for convergent oligosaccharide synthesis 3.1 2'-Carboxybenzylglycosides: A Novel Type of Glycosyl Donors and Their Application to Oligosaccharide Synthesis 3.2 Oligosaccharide Synthesis with Glycosyl Phosphates 3.3 Glycosyl thioimidates as versatile glycosyl donors for stereoselective O-glycosylation and convergent oligosaccharide synthesis 3.4 Sequential glycosylation strategies a focus on thioglycosides as donors and acceptors 3.5 New Aspects of Glycoside Bond Formation - Solid Phase Oligosaccharide Synthesis 4. Chemical and enzymatic synthesis of therapeutically significant complex glycostructures 4.1 Synthesis of carbohydrate antigens related to Shigella dysenteriae type 1 and of their protein conjugates 4.2 Enzymatic Synthesis of Glycosaminoglycans: Improving on Nature 4.3 The chemical synthesis of glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchors from Trypanosoma cruzi trypomastigote mucins: exploration of ester and acetal type permanent protecting groups 4.4 Glycodiversification for the Synthesis of Neomycin and Kanamycin Class Aminoglycoside Antibiotics CONVERGENT N-GLYCOPEPTIDE SYNTHESIS 5. Special topics of modern glycochemistry 5.1 Targeting Galectin-1 with Self-Assembled Multivalent Pseudopolyrotaxanes 5.2 De Novo Synthesis of Biofunctional Carbohydrate-Encapsulated Quantum Dots