The structure of carbohydrates—hexoses to be precise—posed one of the earliest chemical mysteries. Emil Fischer, a grandfather of chemical biologists, relied on phenyl hydrazine to elucidate ...

Carbohydrates are one of the most fundamental and highly abundant biomolecules present in nature. However, their detailed understanding and applications are relatively unexplored, owing to the ...

Orders of magnitude of structural information and diversity can more readily be carried in carbohydrates ... This lecture deals with advances in any area of carbohydrate chemistry, and is delivered in ...

Carbohydrate chemistry deals with the reactions and synthesis of, often biologically important, carbohydrate molecules including monosaccharides, polysaccharides and their derivatives ...