Key Features:
- Comprehensive Coverage: Explores the synthesis and transformation of glycals, glycosides), and 2-C-branched sugars, emphasizing their chemical and biological significance.
- Advanced Synthetic Strategies: Discusses recent advances, including metal-catalyzed and metal-free approaches for glycoside synthesis under mild conditions.
- Natural Product Synthesis: Highlights the total synthesis of medicinally important molecules derived from glycals.
- Cutting-Edge Applications: Examines the role of glycals in creating glycohybrids and glycoconjugates, opening avenues in glycobiology and glycotechnology.