Sialic Acids, Part I: Historical Background and Development and Chemical Synthesis

Reviews the current status and future trends in carbohydrate chemistry and biochemistry, providing critical and informative articles

David C. Baker (Series edited by)

9780128152027, Elsevier Science

Hardback, published 6 December 2018

364 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.5 cm, 0.79 kg

Sialic Acids, Volume 75, a recent release in the Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biochemistry series, is the first volume of a two-volume set devoted to the sialic acids. Vol. 75 includes a broad-based historical overview of the field by two pioneers in the identification, structural development, and chemistry and biochemistry of the sialic acids. A second chapter is devoted to the finer aspects of the modern, up-to-date chemical synthesis of the all-important glycosides of N-acetylneuraminic acid, a class of sialic acid derivatives with a myriad of functions.

1. Exploration of the Sialic Acid World Roland Schauer and Johannis P. Kamerling 2. Chemical Synthesis of Glycosides of N-Acetylneuraminic Acid Cristina De Meo and Bradley T. Jones

Subject Areas: Organic chemistry [PNN], Chemistry [PN]