Table of Contents:
  • 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 Artificial 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.