Trends in Synthetic Carbohydrate Chemistry

Content: New synthetic methods emphasizing deoxyfluoro sugars and protective-group strategy / Walter A. Szarek --
New approaches to the synthesis of nitrogenous and deoxy sugars and cyclitols / Hans H. Baer --
New method of orthoesterification under kinetic control : formation and selective hydrolysis of methoxyethylidene derivatives of carbohydrates / Mohamed Bouchra, Pierre Calinaud, and Jacques Gelas --
Synthetic approaches to bicyclic nucleosides : total synthesis of octosyl acid A and octosyl acid C dimethyl acetal / Stephen Hanessian, John Kloss, and Tamio Sugawara --
Use of unstabilized carbohydrate ylides for the synthesis of long-chain carbohydrates / John A. Secrist, III, Keith D. Barnes, and Shang-Ren Wu --
Synthesis of chiral pyrrolidines from carbohydrates / J. Grant Buchanan, Alan R. Edgar, Brian D. Hewitt, Veerappa B. Jigajinni, Gurdial Singh, and Richard H. Wightman --
Dimethyl(methylthio)sulfonium triflate as a promoter for creating glycosidic linkages in oligosaccharide synthesis / Fredrik Andersson, Winnie Birberg, Peter Fügedi, Per J. Garegg, Mina Nashed, and Åke Pilotti --
Approaches to deoxy oligosaccharides of antibiotics and cytostatics by stereoselective glycosylations / Joachim Thiem --
Total synthesis of cyclodextrins / Yukio Takahashi and Tomoya Ogawa --
Total synthesis of ±-N-acetylneuraminic acid : a new strategy for the synthesis of glycosides of sialic acids / Samuel J. Danishefsky, Michael P. DeNinno, James E. Audia, and Gayle Schulte --
Total synthesis of the biologically active form of N-acetylneuraminic acid : a stereospecific route to the construction of N-acetylneuraminic acid Glycosides / Samuel J. Danishefsky and Michael P. DeNinno --
Stereoselective synthesis of carbohydrates from acyclic precursors / R.R. Schmidt --
Synthesis of carbohydrates and derivatives from 7-oxanorbornenes ("naked sugars") / Pierre Vogel, Yves Auberson, Mampuya Bimwala, Etienne de Guchteneere, Eric Vieira, and Jürgen Wagner --
Applications of allylboronates in the synthesis of carbohydrates and polyhydroxylated natural products / William R. Roush --
A fresh approach to the synthesis of carbohydrates / Teruaki Mukaiyama --
Asymmetric reactions toward the synthesis of carbohydrates / Koichi Narasaka --
Microbially aided synthesis of carbohydrates / Claudio Fuganti --
Enzyme-catalyzed synthesis of carbohydrates / C.-H. Wong, D.G. Drueckhammer, J.R. Durrwachter, B. Lacher, C.J. Chauvet, Y.-F. Wang, H.M. Sweers, G.L. Smith, L.J.-S. Yang, and W.J. Hennen.