Table of Contents

Introduction to Carbohydrates
Structure of Saccharides
Protecting Groups for Carbohydrates
Important modifications and functionalizations of the sugar ring
O-Glycoside Synthesis
Structure and Biosynthesis of Glycoconjugates
Glycobiology
Purification and Analysis of Carbohydrates
The Literature of Carbohydrate Chemistry

About the Author

Thisbe Lindhorst holds the Chair of Organic Chemistry at the University of Kiel (Germany). She graduated from Münster University in 1988, completing her Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry at the University of Hamburg in 1991. She then spent a postdoctoral period with S. G. Withers at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver (Canada) before returning to Hamburg. In 2000 she was appointed full professor at the University of Kiel.
Her research interests focus on natural product synthesis, carbohydrate and dendrimer chemistry.

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(Oct. 2007)

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