Sialic acids are cytoprotectors, mainly localized on the surface of cell membranes with
multiple and outstanding cell biological functions. The history of their structural analysis …

Oligosaccharides together with oligonucleotides and oligopeptides comprise the three major
classes of natural biopolymers. Automated systems for oligonucleotide and oligopeptide …

Treating a viral disease is no simple feat. Drug resistance, latent reservoirs in the body,
emerging novel viruses, and a frequent lack of specific treatments all complicate antiviral …

Carbohydrate chemistry is an essential component of the glycosciences and is fundamental
to their progress. This Perspective takes the position that carbohydrate chemistry, or …

Sialic acids are a subset of nonulosonic acids, which are nine-carbon α-keto aldonic acids.
Natural existing sialic acid-containing structures are presented in different sialic acid forms …

Carbohydrates have been shown to play important roles in biological processes. The pace
of development in carbohydrate research is, however, relatively slow due to the problems …

1. INTRODUCTION AND SCOPE Interest in determining the absolute stereochemistry of a
chiral organic compound stems from the widely recognized fact that the stereochemistry …

Sialic acids are a family of α-keto acids with a 9-carbon backbone. They have been
predominantly found as terminal carbohydrate units on glycoproteins and glycolipids of …

Sialic acids constitute a family of negatively charged structurally diverse monosaccharides
that are commonly presented on the termini of glycans in higher animals and some …

Glycosides of 2-deoxy-sugars, monosaccharides in which the hydroxyl group at C-2 is
replaced with a hydrogen atom, occur widely in natural products and therefore have been …