Carbohydrate Chemistry, Volume 42

Content: Cover
 Contents
 Preface
 Contemporary glycoconjugation chemistry
 1 Introduction
 2 Established chemical methodologies
 3 Newer chemical methodologies
 4 Newer enzymatic methodologies
 5 Conclusions and future perspective
 Acknowledgments
 References
 Recent advances in the application of NMR methods to uncover the conformation and recognition features of glycans
 1 Introduction
 2 Mono-, oligo- and poly-saccharides. Conformation and dynamics in solution
 3 The bound state
 4 Oligosaccharide-protein interactions: lectins
 5 Oligosaccharide-protein interactions: antibodies. 6 Oligosaccharide-protein interactions: enzymes7 Polysaccharide interactions
 8 Glycopeptides. The free state
 9 Glycopeptide-antibody interactions
 10 Glycopeptide-lectin interactions
 11 Glycomimetics: structural and conformational features
 12 Glycomimetic interactions: lectins and enzymes
 13 Other interactions. Artificial receptors for carbohydrates
 14 Cyclodextrins
 15 Carbohydrate-nucleic acid interactions
 16 Concluding remarks
 Acknowledgments
 References
 Controlled and highly efficient preparation of carbohydrate-based vaccines: squaric acid chemistry is the way to go. 1 Introduction2 The early days
 3 More recent conjugations of synthetic oligosaccharides
 4 Conjugation of bacterial polysaccharides
 5 The road to the present state of the art
 6 Practical considerations
 7 Suggested conjugation protocols
 Acknowledgments
 References
 Recent advances in Kdo-glycoside formation
 1 Introduction
 2 Chemistry of Kdo glycoside formation
 3 Conclusions and outlook
 Abbreviations
 Acknowledgments
 References
 Chemical and enzymatic approaches to the synthesis of cyclic oligosaccharides
 1 Introduction
 2 Cyclic oligosaccharides retained with glycosidic oxygen. 3 Linear oligosaccharides formed through glycosidic bond cleavage of native CDs and subsequent cyclization to cyclic oligosaccharides4 Polycondensation of designed oligosaccharide monomers
 5 Enzymatic methods to prepare cyclic oligosaccharides
 6 Conclusion
 Abbreviations
 Acknowledgments
 References
 Ferrier rearrangement: an update on recent developments
 1 Introduction
 2 Pd-catalyzed Ferrier rearrangement
 3 Lewis-acid catalyzed Ferrier rearrangement
 4 Ferrier rearrangement mediated by acids
 5 Oxidative promoters
 6 Miscellaneous activation protocols. 7 Miscellaneous transformations of glycals8 Ferrier rearrangement on C-1 or C-2 substituted glycal systems
 9 Polarity inversion in the Ferrier rearrangement
 10 Conclusion
 Acknowledgments
 References
 FimH antagonists --
solubility vs. permeability
 1 Introduction
 2 Results and discussion
 3 Conclusions
 Abbreviations
 Acknowledgments
 References
 Carbohydrate steroid hybrid architectures: the viewpoint of amphiphilicity and self-organisation
 1 Introduction
 2 The different classes of glycosteroids, classified by molecular shape.