Part 1 Synthetic methods of carbohydrate by chemicals: efficient reaction channels from mono-and disaccharides to enaniopure building blocks and exploitation of their application profiles, F.W. Lichtenthaler; stereocontrolled synthesis of C-glycosides, S. Czernecki; glycals in palladium-mediated C-glycosal bond formation, G.D. Davis Jr; new apsects of glycosylation reactions, Richard R. Schmidt; radical functionalization of the anomeric centre of carbohydrates and synthetic applications, G. Decostes; improvements in the synthesis of trehalose-based bacterial lipids, Anderson A.K. Datta et al; from sugars to morpholines, spiro-acetals and alkaloids, L. Hough and A.C. Richardson; synthesis of antibiotic hygromycon A and its derivatives, Noritaka Chida and Seiichiro Ogawa; synthesis of biologically active pseudo-oligosaccharides, T. Suami. Part 2 Synthetic methods of carbohydrate by enzyme: combined classical and chemoenzymatic glycosylations, R. Stiller and J. Thiem; synthesis of oligosaccharides related to plant, vertebrate and bacterial, cell-wall glycans, V. Pozsgay; malto-oligosaccharides as starting materials for synthesis of bioactive compounds, H. Kuzuhara and N. Sakairi. Part 3 Synthetic and biological studies on sialic acid: systematic synthesis of gangliosides toward the elucidation and biomedical application of their biological functions, A. Hasegawa and M. Kiso; synthesis of biologically active sialo-compunds, K. Ikeda and K. Achiwa; sialic acid derivatives as glyco-lipoid, H. Ogura; synthesis of sialic acid analogues and their behaviour toward the enzymes of the sialic acid metabolism as well as the hemagglutinin X-31 of influenza A virus, A. Zbiral; sialic acids regulate cellular and molecular recognition, R. Schauer. Part 4 Functional and biological studies of glycoconjugate: new strategies in the synthesis of beta-D-galacto-oligosaccharides - a synthetic heptasaccharide reveals the "groove-binding" character of a monoclonal antibody, T. Zieglaer et al; cell surface carbohydrates - their involvement in cell adhesion; chemical and enzymatic methods for the depolymerization and modification of heparin, R.J. Lindhardt.
