Christian Vogel earned a PhD in organic chemistry-heterocyclic chemistry under the supervision of Professor Klaus Peseke at the University of Rostock in 1980. Since 1992, he has served as a professor in the Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Rostock.
In addition to fucose chemistry, Dr. Vogel's main interests are pectin fragment synthesis using the modular design principle, the synthesis of rare sugars for structural investigations, and C-nucleosides.

Paul V. Murphy was appointed to the position of Established Professor of Chemistry at National University of Ireland Galway (NUI Galway) in 2008. He is from the West of Ireland (Turloughmore, Co. Galway).
His group is engaged in the design and synthesis of bioactive compounds, with a focus on carbohydrates, maintaining a long tradition in carbohydrate research in Galway's School of Chemistry.

Foreword

Introduction

Editors

Series Editor

Contributors

Section I Synthetic Methods

Chapter 1 Picoloyl-Protecting Group in Oligosaccharide Synthesis: Installation, H-Bond-Mediated Aglycone Delivery (HAD), and Selective Removal

Michael P. Mannino, Jagodige P. Yasomanee, Alexei V. Demchenko, and Venukumar Patteti

Chapter 2 Monomethoxytrityl (MMTr) as an Efficient S-Protecting Group in the Manipulation of Glycosyl Thiols

Raymond Smith, Xiangming Zhu, and Elena Calatrava-Pérez

Chapter 3 One-Step Inversion of Configuration of a Hydroxy Group in Carbohydrates

Shino Manabe and Markus Blaukopf

Chapter 4 Formation and Cleavage of Benzylidene Acetals Catalyzed by NaHSO4¿SiO2

Lifeng Sun, Xin-Shan Ye, and Xingdi Wang

Chapter 5 Thiodisaccharides by Photoinduced Hydrothiolation of 2-Acetoxy Glycals

Dániel Eszenyi, László Lázár, Anikó Borbás, and

Ruairi O. McCourt

Chapter 6 One-Step Preparation of Protected N-tert-Butanesulfinyl d-ribo and d-xylo Furanosylamines from Related Sugar Hemiacetals

Chloé Cocaud, Cyril Nicolas, Olivier R. Martin, and Jérôme Désiré

Chapter 7 An Alternative Preparation of Azides from Amines via Diazotransfer with Triflyl Azide

Yuqian Ye, Xin-Shan Ye, and Xingdi Wang

Chapter 8 Simple Preparation of Dimethyldioxirane and Its Use as an Epoxidation Agent for the Transformation of Glycals to Glycosyl Phosphates

Katharina Kettelhoit, Daniel B. Werz, Aniruddha Sasmal, Xinyu Liu, and Philipp Gritsch

Chapter 9 Preparation of Glycosyl Bromides of ¿-d-Gluco-hept-2-ulopyranosonic Acid Derivatives

Veronika Nagy, Katalin Czifrák, László Juhász, László Somsák, and Olena Apelt

Chapter 10 Preparation of 2,6-Anhydro-hept-2-enonic Acid Derivatives and Their 3-Deoxy Count