Carbohydrate Chemistry in the Total Synthesis of Naturally Occurring Glycosides

This book demonstrates about 10 families of the naturally occurring glycosides natural products, including about 30 molecules that organic chemists have devoted a lot of efforts toward their total synthesis. In each individual example, not only the background of each natural glycosides, including their natural resources, their isolation process, and their bioactivities has been described, but also the total synthesis toward the natural product is presented, with special emphasis on the glycosylation reaction, the strategy on saccharides assembly, and the synthetic method for the synthesis of the rare saccharide unit. The readers can clearly see the progress of total synthesis of naturally occurring glycosides, from simple to complex molecules, and from tedious strategy to highly efficient and economical methodologies in this book. It will highly benefit the further developments in the total synthesis of naturally occurring glycosides.