I. INTRODUCTION Recent demonstrations that oligosaccharides play important roles in
diverse biological events have resulted in renewed interest in the synthesis of …

Remarkable advances in glycobiology in recent years have stimulated a resurgence of
interest in carbohydrate chemistry. The challenge of producing the complex glycosides and …

Oligosaccharide synthesis is becoming increasingly important to the pharmaceutical
industry because these biomolecules have potential application as therapeutics. Enzymatic …

Research over the past two decades has uncovered numerous biological roles for
carbohydrates, eg in cell adhesion processes, signal transduction, malignant transformation …

Modern Methods in Carbohydrate Synthesis presents in one volume a sequence of chapters
leading from classical methods through to today's newest state-of-the-art technology for …

A plethora of methods are available to the synthetic organic chemist for the—formation of
glycosidic linkages in oligosaccharides. As a result, a decision as to which method should …

Glycobiology and related disciplines have received an enormous interest in recent years as
they shed new light on the functional roles of carbohydrates in biological events leading to …

It is generally accepted that an oligosaccharide is a carbohydrate consisting of 2–10
monosaccharide residues linked by O-glycosidic bonds (Eggleston and Cote, 2003; …

The glycosidase-catalyzed synthesis of glycosides and oligosaccharides is reviewed with
emphasis on structures related to glycoconjugates. The general enzymatic properties of …

In oligosaccharide synthesis the chemo‐enzymatic approach is often chosen to obtain the
desired glycosidic bond by exploiting the exquisite substrate specificity and stereoselectivity …