Glycoscience

<P>1 General Principles.- 1.1 Structure and Conformation of Carbohydrates.- 1.2 General Occurance and Properties of Carbohydrates.- 2 General Synthetic Methods.- 2.1 Reactions at Oxygen Atoms.- 2.2 Oxidation, Reduction and Deoxygenation.- 2.3 Heteroatom Exchange.- 2.4 Anhydrosugars.- 2.5 C-C Bond Formation.- 2.6 C=C Bond Formation.- 2.7 Degradations and Rearrangement Reactions.- 3 Chemical Glycosylation Reactions.- 3.1 Introduction to Glycosylation Reactions.- 3.2 Glycosyl Halides.- 3.3 Glycosyl Trichloroacid Imidates.- 3.4 Other Anomeric Esters.- 3.5 O-Glycosyl Donors.- 3.6 S-Glycosylation.- 3.7 Glycal Derivatives.- 3.8 Anomeric Anhydro Sugars.- 3.9 C-Glycosylation.- 4 Monosaccharides.- 4.1 Occurance, Significance and Properties.- 4.2 Monosaccharides and Polyols in Foods.- 4.3 De Novo Synthesis of Monosaccharides.- 4.4 Monosaccharides as Chiral Pools for the Synthesis of Complex Natural Compounds.- 4.5 Monosaccharides as Scaffolds for the Synthesis of Novel Compounds.- 4.6 Monosaccharides as Chiral Auxiliaries and Ligands for Asymmetric Synthesis.- 4.7 Carbohydrate Metal Complexes.- 5 Oligosaccharides.- 5.1 Occurrence, Significance and Properties.- 5.2 Sucrose and Related Oligosaccharides.- 5.3 Oligosaccharides in Food and Agriculture.- 5.4 Combinatorial Methods in Oligosaccharide Synthesis.- 5.5 Solid Phase Methods.- 5.6 Stereoselective Synthesis of ß-Manno Glycoside.- 5.7 Silalylation.- 5.8 Enzymatic Glycosylation by Tranferases.- 5.9 Enzymatic Glycosylation by Hydrolases.- 6 Complex Polysaccharides.- 6.1 Occurence, Significance and Properties.- 6.2 Starch.- 6.3 Cellulose and Hemicellulose.- 6.4 Gums and Related Polysaccharides.- 6.5 Bacterial Cell Wall Components.- 6.6 Fungal Cell Wall Components.- 6.7 Structure-Activity Relationship of Glycosaminoglycans.- 7 Glycolipids.- 7.1 Occurence, Significance and Properties.- 7.2 Synthesis.- 7.3 Biosynthesis and Degradation.- 7.4 Glycosylphosphatidylinositols.- 8 Glycoproteins.- 8.1 Occurence and Significance.- 8.2 Properties.- 8.3 Synthesis and Applications of Biologically Relevant Glycopeptides and Glycoproteins.- 8.4 Glycosilylation Engineering of Glycoproteins.- 8.5 Glycoprotein Analysis.- 9 Glycomimetics.- 9.1 Azaglycomimetics: Synthesis and Chemical Biology.- 9.2 Carbasugars: Synthesis and Functions.- 9.3 Sulfur Containing Glycomimetics.- 9.4 C-Glycosyl Analogs of Oligosaccharides and Glycosyl Amino Acids.- 9.5 Non-Sugar Glycomimetics.- 10 Key Technologies and Tools for Functional Glycobiology.- 10.1 Introduction.- 10.2 Microarrays.- 10.3 Chemical Probes and Monitoring.- 10.4 Glycomics and Mass Spectrometry.- 10.5 Bioinformatical Tools.- 11 Biosynthesis and Degradation.- 11.1 Introduction.- 11.2 Biosynthesis and Degradation of Monosaccharides.- 11.3 Biosynthesis of Oligosaccharides and Polysaccharides.-11.4 Degradation of Oligosaccharides and Polysaccharides.- 12 Glycomedicine.- 12.1 Novel Approaches for Glycodrug Discovery.- 12.2 Biomedicine of Monosaccharides.- 12.3 Mammalian Carbohydrate-Lectin Interactions.- 12.4 Multivalency in Protein-Carbohydrate Recognition.- 12.5 Synthesis of Heparin-Fragments.- 12.6 Biomedicine of Glycolipids and Glycosphingolipids.- 12.7 Biomedicine of Enkephalin-Derived Glycopeptide Analgesics.- 12.8 Antitumor and Antimicrobial Glycoconjugates.- 12.9 Biomedicine of Glycosylated Natural Compounds.- 12.10 Mucin-based Vaccines.- 12.11 Polysaccharide-based Vaccines</P>