Timely Research Perspectives in Carbohydrate Chemistry

Invited Reviews.- Lipases as Useful Tools for the Stereo- and Regioselective Protection and Deprotection of Carbohydrates.- Carbohydrate-Based Scaffolds for the Generation of Sortiments of Bioactive Compounds.- Conversions of Nitroalkyl to Carbonyl Groups in Carbohydrates.- From Lianas to Glycobiology Tools: Twenty-Five Years of 2,5-Dideoxy-2,5-imino-D-mannitol.- Contributions.- Rearrangements in the Course of Fluorination by Diethylaminosulfur Trifluoride at C-2 of Glycopyranosides: Some New Parameters.- Allyl Protecting Group Mediated Intramolecular Aglycon Delivery (IAD) of Glycosyl Fluorides.- Zinc-Mediated Fragmentation of Methyl 6-Deoxy-6-iodo-hexopyranosides.- Reactivity Tournament of Isothiocyanato-Functionalized Saccharides with 1,6-Diamino-3,6-oxaoctane.- Photochemical Transformation of Levoglucosan Imides to Anhydrosugar-Annelated Azepanediones and Azocanediones.- Synthesis and Biological Activity of a Series of Methylene-Expanded Oxetanocin Nucleoside Analogues.- Thiosugars VI: A Simple Stereoselective Approach to (1?3)-3-S-Thiodisaccharides from Levoglucosenone.- Synthesis of Sulfur-Containing Analogues of ?Gal NAc (Tn-Antigen) and ?Gal 1,3?Gal/NAc (T-Antigen).- The Chameleon of Retaining Glycoside Hydrolases and Retaining Glycosyl Transferases: The Catalytic Nucleophile.- N-Alkylated Derivatives of 1,5-Dideoxy-1,5-iminoxylitol as ?-Xylosidase and ?-Glucosidase Inhibitors.- Synthesis of C-8 Deuterated Glycosides of 3-Deoxy-D-manno-oct-2-ulosonic Acid (Kdo) Related to Chlamydial Lipopolysaccharides.- Carbohydrate Auxiliaries in Stereoselective Syntheses of Decahydroquinoline Alkaloids.- Analysis of Carbohydrate Mixtures by Diffusion Difference NMR Spectroscopy.