Carbohydrates are associated with a plethora of important biological processes
and have been implicated in the onset and progress of many lethal diseases. They
have attracted a great deal of recent research interest from both synthetic
chemists and glycobiologists, and have been identified as novel targets of
therapeutic importance. This book, aimed at synthetic and medicinal chemists,
introduces both undergraduates and research students to the chemistry and
biology of carbohydrates. The text investigates methods for synthesizing
carbohydrates in a systematic and logical manner and provides real examples from
the literature to exemplify the procedures introduced. Both traditional and
modern methods for synthesizing carbohydrates, including enzymatic and solid-
phase techniques,