Carbohydrate Building Blocks

Carbohydrate Building Blocks

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Serves as a reference for synthetic organic chemists in search of starting materials for synthesizing chiral compounds. The book points out which carbohydrates are best used, and how to get them. Half of the book is a dictionary-like list of compounds that can be prepared form commercially cheap carbohydrates.

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Carbohydrate Building Blocks by Mikael Bols

Bols delivers an original and effective presentation that unravels secrets from carbohydrate chemistry. He specifically describes which carbohydrates are best used in Synthesis and how to obtain them. The first half of this indispensable reference contains a dictionary-like list of compounds that can be prepared in a few steps from commercially cheap carbohydrates. The latter section describes which carbohydrates are commercially and inexpensively available along with the chemistry that can be used to convert them into useful building blocks.
MIKAEL BOLS is Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry at Aarhus University in Denmark. Formerly an Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry at The Technical University of Denmark, where he obtained his PhD in 1988, he also worked for two years as a research chemist for Leo Pharmaceuticals.
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ISBN 13 9780471133391
ISBN 10 0471133396
Title Carbohydrate Building Blocks
Author Mikael Bols
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc
Year published 1996-01-09
Number of pages 182
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.