Overview

This fully updated and expanded second edition of a highly popular text book focuses on the structure and mechanism in carbohydrate chemistry and biochemistry. Carbohydrates play important roles in biological systems as energy sources, as structural materials, and as informational structures (when they are often attached to proteins or lipids). Their chemical reactivity and conformational behaviour is governed by mechanistic and stereochemical rules, which apply as much to enzymic as to non-enzymic reactivity. The same principles of reactivity and conformation govern changes brought about in the process industries, such as pulp, paper and food. Extensively referenced with citations and a detailed index, the book contains everything the reader needs to know to start a carbohydrate research project with one of the real strengths being the treatment and integration of the important physical-chemical principles and methods (though lead references only are given to the finer points of carbohydrate synthesis). The book is suitable for both researchers who are new to the subject and those more established as well as a readership from diverse backgrounds and interests, including chemists, biochemists, food scientists and technologists involved with the processing of polysaccharides in the paper, textile, cosmetics, biofuels and other industries.

Full Product Details

Author:   Prof. Michael Sinnott ,  Andrew Williams ,  Mike Page
Publisher:   Royal Society of Chemistry
Imprint:   Royal Society of Chemistry
Edition:   2nd edition
Dimensions:   Width: 18.90cm , Height: 5.30cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   1.758kg
ISBN:  

9781849733274

ISBN 10:   1849733279
Pages:   834
Publication Date:   28 March 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Structures of the open-chain forms of reducing sugars and related molecules. Mechanistic probes of sugar carbonyl group additions; Conformations of Sugar Rings and Glycosidic Linkages; Nucleophilic Substitution a the Anomeric Centre; Enzymic Glycoside Hydrolysis and Transglycosylation: Kinetics and Mechanism; Primary Structure and Conformation of Oligosaccharides and Polysaccharides; Heterolytic Reactions of OH Groups; Heterolytic Chemistry of the Carbon Chain; Glycosyl Transferases and Oligosaccharide and Polysaccharide Biosynthesis; Glycoconjugates: Biosynthesis and Properties; One-electron Chemistry of Carbohydrates; Appendix; Subject Index

Reviews

the overall view of the text is favorable, since it covers so many varied topics, some perhaps unfamiliar to even the most seasoned glycoscientists ..an invaluable companion and introduction to the primary literature of the field. ...this is an excellent treatment of carbohydrate chemistry. It belongs in libraries and on the bookshelves of carbohydrate chemists and biochemists. useful addition to the library of individuals with interests in theglycoscience field, as well as students wishing to learn moreabout this area. ...the book provides an excellent and authoritative reference resource for beginning and established researchers interested in structural and mechanistic aspects of carbohydrate (biochemistry)

...the book provides an excellent and authoritative reference resource for beginning and established researchers interested in structural and mechanistic aspects of carbohydrate (biochemistry) useful addition to the library of individuals with interests in theglycoscience field, as well as students wishing to learn moreabout this area. the overall view of the text is favorable, since it covers so many varied topics, some perhaps unfamiliar to even the most seasoned glycoscientists ...this is an excellent treatment of carbohydrate chemistry. It belongs in libraries and on the bookshelves of carbohydrate chemists and biochemists. ..an invaluable companion and introduction to the primary literature of the field.

...the book provides an excellent and authoritative reference resource for beginning and established researchers interested in structural and mechanistic aspects of carbohydrate (biochemistry) useful addition to the library of individuals with interests in theglycoscience field, as well as students wishing to learn moreabout this area. the overall view of the text is favorable, since it covers so many varied topics, some perhaps unfamiliar to even the most seasoned glycoscientists ...this is an excellent treatment of carbohydrate chemistry. It belongs in libraries and on the bookshelves of carbohydrate chemists and biochemists. ..an invaluable companion and introduction to the primary literature of the field.

"""...the book provides an excellent and authoritative reference resource for beginning and established researchers interested in structural and mechanistic aspects of carbohydrate (biochemistry)"" ""useful addition to the library of individuals with interests in theglycoscience field, as well as students wishing to learn moreabout this area."" ""the overall view of the text is favorable, since it covers so many varied topics, some perhaps unfamiliar to even the most seasoned glycoscientists"" ""...this is an excellent treatment of carbohydrate chemistry. It belongs in libraries and on the bookshelves of carbohydrate chemists and biochemists."" ""..an invaluable companion and introduction to the primary literature of the field."""

Author Information

"Michael Sinnott received his first degree in Chemistry from University of Oxford in 1966 and a PhD in Organic Chemistry from Bristol in 1968. After a postdoctoral at Stanford in Bioorganic Chemistry, he returned to Bristol and progressed up the academic ranks until he left, as Reader in Bioorganic Chemistry, in 1987 to become Professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He returned to the United Kingdom in 1996 for family reasons becoming Professor of Paper Science at UMIST. Progression of longstanding orthopaedic problems facilitated his retirement from UMIST, but he continues his scholarly and research supervision activities at University of Huddersfield. He has published 120 research papers, two books, and edited and contributed to the four-volume set ""Comprehensive Biological Catalysis""."

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