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Synopsis
Carbohydrate chemistry provides access to carbohydrate-based natural products and synthetic molecules as useful biologically active structures relevant to many healthcare and disease-related biological processes. Recent Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry: Carbohydrates: Synthesis, Structure, and Function presents the most recent synthetic methodologies in carbohydrate chemistry from an international team of experts.
The work looks at 2-Ulosonic acids, which constitute an important class of natural saccharides and play a major role in numerous bio-medically important areas. The book emphasizes the structural and biosynthetic similarities as well as distinct differences among these sugar acids to provide background information needed for the development of inhibitors, vaccines and antimicrobials with novel modes of action. Lastly, polysaccharides, which are commonly modified chemically to attain new properties, are examined.
Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry: Carbohydrates: Synthesis, Structure, and Function and material is ideal for researchers working as synthetic organic chemists, as well as conjugation and protein chemists, immunologists, and microbiologists, in academia as well as industry.
- Demonstrates the importance of carbohydrate chemistry for the access of carbohydrate-based natural molecules
- Details monosaccharide syntheses and transformations towards biologically active small molecular entities
- Provides the most recent findings on polysaccharide synthesis