Sugar Chemistry

Author: Kong Fanzhu
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: This book includes the basic knowledge, fundamental reactions, and mechanisms of carbohydrate chemistry, as well as the latest research progress in the field of carbohydrate chemistry. The book is divided into seven chapters. First, it elaborates on the basic concepts of carbohydrates, the relationships between sugars, the shapes of sugars, and the properties and reactions of sugar anomeric carbons. It then provides a detailed introduction to glycosides, halogenated glycosides, oxygen glycosides (including acetal sugars), nitrogen glycosides, sulfur glycosides, and carbon glycosides. Next, it primarily introduces the properties and reactions of other carbon atoms except anomeric carbons, including deoxy sugars, unsaturated sugars, polyketose sugars, branched sugars, etc. It discusses the properties and reactions of hydroxyl groups, as well as their protection and deprotection. It also touches on the progress in oligosaccharide synthesis and discusses asymmetric synthesis using carbohydrates as starting materials or auxiliaries. Finally, it introduces monosaccharides, oligosaccharides, and polysaccharides that exist in nature. This book can serve as a textbook for undergraduate and graduate students in related fields, as well as a reference for researchers and educators in carbohydrate chemistry and carbohydrate biology.