Carbohydrate Chemistry provides review coverage of all publications relevant to
the chemistry of monosaccharides and oligosaccharides in a given year.
The amount of research in this field appearing in the organic chemical
literature is increasing because of the enhanced importance of the subject,
especially in areas of medicinal chemistry and biology. In no part of the field
is this more apparent than in the synthesis of oligosaccharides required by
scientists working in glycobiology. Clycomedicinal chemistry and its reliance on
carbohydrate synthesis is now very well established, for example, by the
preparation of specific carbohydrate- based antigens, especially cancer-specific
oligosaccharides and glycoconjugates. Coverage of topics such as nucleosides,
amino-sugars,