Carbohydrates in Synthesis

Dear Colleagues,

Carbohydrate chemistry is a growing area in chemistry and biochemistry due to the extremely important role of carbohydrates in nature. Some evidence of this includes: a) the increasing number of publications in this scientific area; and b) a report published in 2012 by the National Research Council (Title: Transforming glycoscience: A roadmap for the future) and c) the recent 29th International Carbohydrate Symposium (ICS 2018, Lisbon, http://www.ics2018.eventos.chemistry.pt/) which covered sessions on carbohydrate chemistry and analysis, carbohydrate structure and function, carbohydrates in medicinal chemistry, chemical biology, natural products, computational sciences and emerging areas of the glycosciences.

The role of synthetic chemists and microbiologists in this area is extremely important. They are responsible for the development of new synthetic methodologies to improve the access to known sugars or sugar-based compounds, together with the synthesis of new sugar-based molecular or macromolecular entities. Accordingly, this Special Issue of Molecules will contain research communications, papers and reviews on recent aspects of the following topics in carbohydrate chemistry:

(i) Syntheses of carbohydrates from any starting material using chemical, microbial or any other technique.

(ii) Syntheses from carbohydrates of any target using chemical, microbial or any other technique.

(iii) Protecting the group chemistry of carbohydrates.

Prof. Ramón J. Estévez Cabanas
Guest Editor

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