Lindhorst,T.K.,Essentials of carbohydrate chemistry and biochemistry(3rd ed.),Wiley-VCH,Weinheim,Germany,2007(xiii+317 pp.,E45.00,ISBN 3-527-31528-4).

摘要

Carbohydrates are the most abundant natural products,playing important roles as energy storage molecules and structural building blocks.They also form fundamental constituents of all cell surfaces,where they are involved in cellular recognition processes essential for life.This updated volume provides a succinct introduction to carbohydrate chemistry and biochemistry,covering basic knowledge as well as advanced topics.The first two chapters provide an introduction to carbohydrates,and the structure and nomenclature of saccharides,respectively.Regioselectivity is a prominent problem in carbohydrate chemistry as sugars contain several hydroxyl groups of different reactivity together with various other functionalities such as carbonyl and amino groups.Protecting groups and protecting group strategies are therefore of crucial importance,and are discussed in the third chapter,along with orthogonally protected carbohydrate scaffolds.