[PDF] Carbohydrate Synthons in Natural Products Chemistry. Synthesis, Functionalization, and Applications Zbigniew J. Witczak and Kuniaki Tatsuta (Eds.)

Content: 1. Chiral Carbohydrate Building Blocks with a New Perspective: Revisited / Zbigniew J. Witczak — 2. A Convenient Procedure for the Preparation of Levoglucosenone and Its Conversion to Novel Chiral Derivatives / Walter S. Trahanovsky, Jason M. Ochaoda, Chen Wang, Kevin D. Revell, Kirk B. Arvidson, Yu Wang, Huiyan Zhao, Steven Chung and Synthia Chang — 3. Preparation and Exploitation of an Artifical Levoglucosenone / Kunio Ogasawara — 4. Sugar-Derived Building Blocks for the Synthesis of Non-Carbohydrate Natural Products / Frieder W. Liechtenthaler — 5. General Three Carbon Chiral Synthons from Carbohydrates: Chiral Pool and Chiral Auxiliary Approaches / Rawle I. Hollingsworth and Guijun Wang