This book is a comprehensive and concise review on principles, strategies, and crucial advances in glycochemistry. It focuses on synthesis and practical applications and emphasizes state-of-the-art approaches to the assembly and design of sugars.

•    Provides detailed discussion on specific topics like oligosaccharide assembly and design of sugars, techniques in glycoconjugate preparation, multivalency, and carbohydrate-based drug design
•    Uses notable examples, like solution-based one-pot methods and automated methods for sugar assembly, to illustrate important concepts and advances in a rapidly emerging field
•    Discusses practical applications of carbohydrates, like medicine, therapeutics, drug and vaccine development

Shang-Cheng Hung, PhD, is a Distinguished Research Fellow of the Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. His work focuses on carbohydrate chemistry and chemical biology, including the development of novel approaches to glycan synthesis and the acquisition of important cell-surface glycan components together with their biological evaluations.

Medel Manuel L. Zulueta, PhD, is a carbohydrate chemist at the Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. He develops of strategies for the chemical synthesis of oligosaccharides, particularly heparin and heparan sulfate.