Reactivity Tuning in Oligosaccharide Assembly

Armed-Disarmed Effects in Carbohydrate Chemistry: History, Synthetic and Mechanistic Studies, by Bert Fraser-Reid and J. Cristóbal López: Armed-Disarmed Effects in Carbohydrate Chemistry.- A Survey of Ley's Reactivity Tuning in Oligosaccharide Synthesis, by Ana M. Gómez.- "Active-Latent" Thioglycosyl Donors and Acceptors in Oligosaccharide Syntheses, by Tze Chieh Shiao and René Roy.- Effect of Electron-Withdrawing Protecting Groups at Remote Positions of Donors on Glycosylation Stereochemistry, by Kwan Soo Kim and Dae-Hwan Suk.- Influence of Protecting Groups on the Reactivity and Selectivity of Glycosylation: Chemistry of the 4,6-O-Benzylidene Protected Mannopyranosyl Donors and Related Species, by Sylvain Aubry, Kaname Sasaki, Indrajeet Sharma and David Crich.- Superarmed and Superdisarmed Building Blocks in Expeditious Oligosaccharide Synthesis, by Hemali D. Premathilake and Alexei V. Demchenko.- Programmable One-Pot Glycosylation, by Chung -Yi Wu and Chi -Huey Wong.- Uronic Acids in Oligosaccharide and Glycoconjugate Synthesis, by Jeroen D. C. Codée, Alphert E. Christina, Marthe T. C. Walvoort, Herman S. Overkleeft and Gijsbert A. van der Marel.-

From the reviews:"In this book, the various concepts that allow a synthetic carbohydrate chemist to make such choices are reviewed. ... the various authors describe how the nature of the anomeric leaving group and protecting groups combined with the method of activation allow the fine-tuning of a glycosylation reaction. ... this book covers the most important discoveries made recently and should find its place on the bookshelf of any chemist engaged in synthetic carbohydrate chemistry." (France-Isabelle Auzanneau, Journal of American Chemical Society, Vol. 133, November, 2011)