Download or read book Timely Research Perspectives in Carbohydrate Chemistry written by Walther Schmid and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book includes a collection of minireviews and research papers written by international leaders in the field of carbohydrate chemistry as well as promising young talents. The contents of the contributions span from natural products over structure elucidation with special emphasis on spectroscopy, syntheses and synthetic methods, biological activities, applications of carbohydrates and carbohydrate mimetics as well as their use as molecular scaffolds and carriers of biological information. The reader will get a representative overview of state-of-the-art research topics and approaches.