Timely Research Perspectives in Carbohydrate Chemistry

Invited Reviews: Lipases as Useful Tools for the Stereo- and Regioselective Protection and Deprotection of Carbohydrates (La Ferla B.); Carbohydrate-Based Scaffolds for the Generation of Sortiments of Bioactive Compounds (Peri F., Cipolla L., Forni E., Nicotra F.); Conversions of Nitroalkyl to Carbonyl Groups in Carbohydrates (Petruš L., Petrušová M., Pham-Huu D.-P., Lattová E., Pribulová B., Turjan, J.); From Lianas to Glycobiology Tools: Twenty-five Years of 2,5-Dideoxy-2,5-imino-D-mannitol (Wrodnigg T. M.).- Contributions: Rearrangements in the Course of Fluorination by Diethylaminosulfur Trifluoride at C-2 of Glycopyranosides: Some New Parameters (Dax K., Albert M., Hammond D., Illaszewicz C., Purkarthofer T., Tscherner M., Weber H.); Allyl Protecting Group Mediated Intramolecular Aglycon Delivery (IAD) of Glycosyl Fluorides (Cumpstey I., Fairbanks A. J., Redgrave A. J.); Zinc-Mediated Fragmentation of Methyl 6-Deoxy-6-iodo-hexopyranosides (Skaanderup P. R., Hyldtoft L., Madsen R.); Reactivity Tournament of Isothiocyanato-Functionalized Saccharides with 1,6-Diamino-3,6-oxaoctane (Walter M., Lindhorst T. K.); Photochemical Transformation of Levoglucosan Imides to Anhydrosugar-Annelated Azepanediones and Azocanediones (Sund C., Thiering S., Thiem J., Kopf J., Stark M.); Synthesis and Biological Activity of a Series of Methylene-Expanded Oxetanocin Nucleoside Analogues (Jung M. E., Toyota A., de Clercq E., Balzarini J.); Thiosugars VI: A Simple Stereoselective Approach to (1®3)-3-S-Thiodisaccharides from Levoglucosenone (Witczak Z. J., Kaplon P., Kolodziej M.); Synthesis of Sulfur-Containing Analogues of aGalNAc (Tn-Antigen) and bGal1,3aGalNAc (T-Antigen) (Wenzl I., Neuwirth N., Hedenetz A. G., Fiedler C., Streicher H., Unger F. M., Schmid W.); The Chameleon of Retaining Glycoside Hydrolases and Retaining Glycosyl Transferases: The Catalytic Nucleophile (Stick R. V., Watts A. G.); N-Alkylated Derivatives of 1,5-Dideoxy-1,5-iminoxylitol as b-Xylosidase andb-Glucosidase Inhibitors (Häusler H., Rupitz K. Stütz A. E., Withers S. G.); Synthesis of C-8 Deuterated Glycosides of 3-Deoxy-D-manno-oct-2-ulosonic Acid (Kdo) Related to Chlamydial Lipopolysaccharides (Kosma P., Strobl M., Hofinger A., Duus J. Ø., Petersen B. O., Bock K., Brade H.); Carbohydrate Auxiliaries in Stereoselective Syntheses of Decahydroquinoline Alkaloids (Weymann M., Schulz-Kukula M., Knauer S., Kunz H.); Analysis of Carbohydrate Mixtures by Diffusion Difference NMR Spectroscopy (Kählig H., Dietrich K., Dorner S.)