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An improved synthesis of the saponin, polyphyllin D1Bing Li, Biao Yu, Yongzheng Hui (Shanghai, Peo-ple’s Republic of China), Ming Li, Xiuwen Han(Dalian, People’s Republic of China), Kwok-Pui Fung(Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China)

Salt-assisted acid hydrolysis of starch to D-glucose under microwave irradiation9Li Kunlan, Xia Lixin, Li Jun, Pang Jun, Cao Guoy-ing, Xi Zuwei (Dalian, People’s Republic of China)

Inhibition of �-glycosidases by acarbose analogues containing cellobiose and lac-13Soo-Bok Lee, Kwan-Hwa Park, John F. Robyt(Ames, IA, USA) tose structures

Purification and molecular structure of two digalactosyl D-chiro-inositols and two19Kathryn J. Steadman, David J. Fuller, Ralph L.Obendorf (Ithaca, NY, USA) trigalactosyl D-chiro-inositols from buckwheat seeds

DL-Galactan hybrids and agarans from gametophytes of the red seaweed, Gym-27Jose M. Estevez, Marina Ciancia, Alberto S. Cerezonogongrus torulosus(Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Concepts for improved regioselective placement of O-sulfo, N-sulfo, N-acetyl, and43Hanno Baumann, Volker Faust (Aachen, Germany)N-carboxymethyl groups in chitosan derivatives

Pyruvated galactose and oligosaccharides from Erwinia chrysanthemi Ech6 extracel-59Byung Yun Yang, John Brand, Rex Montgomery(Iowa City, IA, USA) lular polysaccharide

69 Structural revision of isovalertatins M03, M13, and M23 isolated from the cultureDafang Zhong, Duanyun Si (Shenyang, People’s Re-of Streptomyces luteogriseuspublic of China), Wenyi He (Beijing, People’s Repub-

lic of China), Limei Zhao (Shenyang, People’sRepublic of China), Qinmin Xu (Shijiazhuang, Peo-ple’s Republic of China)

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77Natsu Nishimura, Ai Kato, Isamu Maeba (Nagoya, Synthesis of pyrrolo[2,1-f ][1,2,4]triazine C-nucleosides. Isosteres of sangivamycin,tubercidin, and toyocamycinJapan)

Synthesis of isotopically labeled D-[1�-13C]ribonucleoside phosphoramidites83Yoshio Saito, Agnes Nyilas, Luigi A. Agrofoglio(Orleans, France)

A short and practical route to 3-O-benzoyl azidosphingosineJorgen Ohlsson, Goran Magnusson (Lund, Sweden) 91

Structural characterization of the glycan part of glycoconjugate LbGp2 from95Xuemei Peng, Gengyuan Tian (Shanghai, People’sLycium barbarum L.Republic of China)

101Svein H. Knutsen, Marit Sletmoen, Trond Kristensen A rapid method for the separation and analysis of carrageenan oligosaccharidesreleased by iota- and kappa-carrageenase(A� s, Norway), Tristan Barbeyron, Bernard Kloareg,

Philippe Potin (Roscoff, France)

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Syntheses of neoglycolipids with hexitol spacers between the saccharidic and theDominique Lafont, Barbara Gross, Rene Kleinegesse, 107Fabienne Dumoulin, Paul Boullanger (Villeurbanne, lipidic partsFrance)

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Makoto Hashimoto (Bath, UK), Yasumaru Synthesis of biotinylated bis(D-glucose) derivatives for glucose transporter pho-119Hatanaka (Toyama, Japan), Jing Yang, Jaswant toaffinity labellingDhesi, Geoffrey D. Holman (Bath, UK)

Synthesis of chitotetraose and chitohexaose based on dimethylmaleoyl protection129Mohamed R.E. Aly, El-Sayed I. Ibrahim, El SayedH. El Ashry, Richard R. Schmidt (Konstanz, Ger-many)

143 Enzymatic glycosylation using 6-O-acylated sugar donors and acceptors: �-N-Lucie Husakova (Prague, Czech Republic), Sergioacetylhexosaminidase-catalysed synthesis of 6-O,N,N �-triacetylchitobiose and 6�-Riva, Monica Casali, Silvia Nicotra (Milan, Italy),

Marek Kuzma, Zdenka Hunkova, Vladimır Kren O,N,N �-triacetylchitobiose(Prague, Czech Republic)

John Thompson, Stanley A. Robrish (Bethesda MD, Phosphorylation and metabolism of sucrose and its five linkage-isomeric �-D-gluco-149syl-D-fructoses by Klebsiella pneumoniaeUSA), Andreas Pikis (Bethesda MD, Washington

DC, USA), Andreas Brust, Frieder W. Lichtenthaler(Darmstadt, Germany)

Structure of epiglucan, a highly side-chain/branched (1�3;1�6)-�-glucan from theFrank Schmid (Bendigo, Australia), Bruce A. Stone 163micro fungus Epicoccum nigrum Ehrenb. ex Schlecht(Bundoora, Australia), Barbara M. McDougall

(Bendigo, Australia), Antony Bacic (Melbourne, Aus-tralia), Kirstee L. Martin (Bendigo, Australia),Robert T.C. Brownlee (Bundoora, Australia), EugeneChai (Melbourne, Australia), Robert J. Seviour(Bendigo, Australia)

Elisabeth J. Faber, Mischa J. van den Haak, Johan- Structure of the exopolysaccharide produced by Streptococcus thermophilus S3173nis P. Kamerling, Johannes F.G. Vliegenthart(Utrecht, The Netherlands)

Structure of the extracellular polysaccharide produced by Lactobacillus delbrueckiiElisabeth J. Faber, Johannis P. Kamerling, Johannes 183subsp. bulgaricus 291F.G. Vliegenthart (Utrecht, The Netherlands)

Andrei V. Perepelov (Moscow, Russia), Dorota Structure of the O-specific polysaccharide of Proteus �ulgaris O4 containing a new195Babicka (L�odz, Poland), Sof’ya N. Senchenkova, component of bacterial polysaccharides, 4,6-dideoxy-4-{N-[(R)-3-hydroxybutyryl]-

L-alanyl}amino-D-glucoseAlexander S. Shashkov (Moscow, Russia), HermannMoll (Borstel, Germany), Antoni Rozalski (L�odz,Poland), Ulrich Zahringer (Borstel, Germany), YuriyA. Knirel (Moscow, Russia)

Synthesis and characterisation of dextran and pullulan sulphate203Christian Mahner, Manfred Dieter Lechner, EckhardNordmeier (Osnabruck, Germany)

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Carmela Borriello, Augusto De Renzi, Maria Fusto, Transition metals and carbohydrates: the methyl-4,6-O-benzylidene-2,3-diazo-2,3-209dideoxy-�-D-mannopyranoside skeleton as building block for new chiral nitrogenAntonio Molinaro, Francesco Ruffo (Naples, Italy)chelates

Structure of the O-specific polysaccharide of Proteus mirabilis O16 containing213Filip V. Toukach, Nikolay P. Arbatsky, Alexander S.ethanolamine phosphate and ribitol phosphateShashkov, Yuriy A. Knirel (Moscow, Russia),

Krystyna Zych, Zygmunt Sidorczyk (L�odz, Poland)

Sof’ya N. Senchenkova (Huddinge, Sweden; Moscow, 219 Structure of a D-glycero-D-manno-heptan from the lipopolysaccharide of Heli-cobacter pyloriRussia), George V. Zatonsky (Moscow, Russia),

Sean O. Hynes (Galway, Ireland), Goran Widmalm(Stockholm, Sweden), Leif P. Andersen (Copenhagen,Denmark), Yuriy A. Knirel (Huddinge, Sweden;Moscow, Russia), Per-Erik Jansson (Huddinge, Swe-den), Anthony P. Moran (Galway, Ireland)

225 CorrigendumD.H. Huang, J.M. Risley (Charlotte NC, USA)

Erratum227Bruce Coxon (Gaithersburg, MD, USA)

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A new synthetic method for preparing indole derivatives from 2-keto glycosides229Hong-Min Liu, Wen Xu, Zhen-Zhong Liu(Zhengzhou, People’s Republic of China)

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Synthesis and identification in bacterial lipopolysaccharides of 5,7-diacetamido-233Yury E. Tsvetkov (Moscow, Russian Federation;3,5,7,9-tetradeoxy-D-glycero-D-galacto- and -D-glycero-D-talo-non-2-ulosonic acidsBorstel, Germany), Alexander S. Shashkov (Moscow,

Russian Federation), Yuriy A. Knirel (Moscow, Rus-sian Federation; Borstel, Germany), Ulrich Zahringer(Borstel, Germany)

Full Papers

239 New evidence for the mechanism of the tin(II) chloride catalyzed reactions ofSigthor Petursson (Akureyri, Iceland)vicinal diols with diazodiphenylmethane in 1,2-dimethoxyethane

Synthesis of methyl �-D-glucopyranosyl-(1�4)-�-D-galactopyranoside and methylLouis J. Liotta, Rita D. Capotosto, Rachel A. Gar- 247�-D-xylo-hex-4-ulopyranosyl-(1�4)-�-D-galactopyranosidebitt, Brian M. Horan, Pamela J. Kelly, Andrew P.

Koleros, Lisa M. Brouillette, Amy M. Kuhn, SoniaTargontsidis (Easton, MA, USA)

Teddy Ercegovic, Ulf J. Nilsson, Goran Magnusson A study of the donor properties of sialyl phosphites having an auxiliary 3-(S)-255phenylseleno group(Lund, Sweden)

Location of O-acetyl groups in S-657 using the reductive-cleavage method265Sandra Diltz, Samuel G. Zeller (San Diego, CA,USA)

On the structure of �/�-hybrid carrageenans271Fred van de Velde, Heleen A. Peppelman (Wagenin-gen, Zeist, The Netherlands), Harry S. Rollema (Ede,The Netherlands), R. Hans Tromp (Wageningen,Ede, The Netherlands)

Sofia Gulin, Anders Kussak, Per-Erik Jansson Structural studies of S-7, another exocellular polysaccharide containing 2-deoxy-285(Huddinge, Sweden), Goran Widmalm (Stockholm, arabino-hexuronic acidSweden)

Purification and characterisation of a galactoglucomannan from kiwifruit (Actinidia291Roswitha Schroder (Auckland, New Zealand), Pierredeliciosa)Nicolas, Sebastien J.F. Vincent, Monica Fischer, Syl-

viane Reymond, Robert J. Redgwell (Lausanne,Switzerland)

Oliver Gronwald, Kazuo Sakurai, Roman Further evidence for the gelation ability–structure correlation in sugar-based307gelatorsLuboradzki, Taro Kimura, Seiji Shinkai (Fukuoka,

Japan)

Charles R. Ojala, Joanne M. Ostman (Bloomington, Molecular and crystal structures of N-arylglycopyranosylamines formed by reac-319tion between sulfanilamide and D-ribose, D-arabinose and D-mannoseMN, USA), William H. Ojala, Summer E. Hanson

(St. Paul, MN, USA)

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The anomalous reactivity of the bis(dibutylstannylene) acetal of pentaerythritol: a327Serge David (Orsay, France)case of triple activation

331Joanna Kubler-Kie l�b (Wroc l�aw, Poland), George V. Structure of the O-specific polysaccharide isolated from the lipopolysaccharide ofCitrobacter gillenii serotype O12a,12b strain PCM 1544Zatonsky (Moscow, Russian Federation), Ewa

Katzenellenbogen (Wroc l�aw, Poland), Nina A.Kocharova (Moscow, Russian Federation), BernadetaSzostko, Andrzej Gamian (Wroc l�aw, Poland), Alek-sander S. Shashkov, Yuriy A. Knirel (Moscow, Rus-sian Federation)

Andrew N. Round, Neil M. Rigby, Alistair J. Mac- Investigating the nature of branching in pectin by atomic force microscopy and337carbohydrate analysisDougall, Steven G. Ring, Victor J. Morris (Norwich,

UK)

343 Preparation, single-crystal X-ray diffraction and high-resolution NMR spectro-Eugenia Skorupowa, Maria Kurszewska, AntoniKonitz, Wies l�aw Wojnowski, Andrzej Wisniewski scopic analyses of N-(2,3,4,6-tetra-O-acetyl-�-D-glucopyranosyl)trimethyl-

ammonium bromide(Gdansk, Poland)

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Glycosyl transfer: a history of the concept’s development and view of its major347Edward J. Hehre (Bronx, NY, USA)contributions to biochemistry

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Synthesis of 6-deoxy-L-idose and L-acovenose from 1,2:5,6-di-O-isopropylidene-�-369Shang-Cheng Hung, Shankar R. Thopate, Rama-D-glucofuranosechandra Puranik (Taipei, Taiwan, ROC)

375 Synthesis of inositol glycan cyclic phosphatesChristine H. Jaworek, Sarah Iacobucci, PericlesCalias, Marc d’Alarcao (Medford, MA, USA)

NMR studies of mannitol-terminating oligosaccharides derived by reductive alka-393Heide Kogelberg, Wengang Chai, Ten Feizi, Alexan-der M. Lawson (Middlesex, UK) line hydrolysis from brain glycoproteins

Martha A. Arguello Morales, Magali Remaud- 403 Novel oligosaccharides synthesized from sucrose donor and cellobiose acceptor byalternansucraseSimeon, Rene-Marc Willemot (Toulouse, France),

Michel R. Vignon (Grenoble, France), Pierre Monsan(Toulouse, France)

413 Structural characterisation of the exopolysaccharide produced by StreptococcusValerie M. Marshall, Helen Dunn, Mark Elvin, Neilthermophilus EU20McLay, Yucheng Gu, Andrew P. Laws (Huddersfield,

UK)

423Toshihiro Ishiguro, Takako Fuse, Masahide Oka, Synthesis of branched cyclomaltooligosaccharide carboxylic acids (cyclodextrinTakashi Kurasawa, Masanari Nakamichi, Yoshihiro carboxylic acids) by microbial oxidationYasumura, Masahiko Tsuda, Takamasa Yamaguchi,Ikuo Nogami (Osaka, Japan)

431 Facile synthesis of a comb-like mannohexaose: a trimer of the disaccharide repeat-Linsen Heng, Jun Ning, Fanzuo Kong (Beijing,ing unit of the cell-wall mannans of Aphanoascus mephitatus and related speciesPeople’s Republic of China)

Notes

Jerry J. Kaylor, John M. Risley (Charlotte, NC, Synthesis of N4-(2-acetamido-2-deoxy-�-D-glucopyranosyl)-L-asparagine analogues.439n-Butyramide, 3-chloropropionamide, 3-aminopropionamide, and isovaleramideUSA)analogues

445Ahmed I. Khodair (Kafr El-Sheikh, Egypt) Glycosylation of 2-thiohydantoin derivatives. Synthesis of some novel S-alkylatedand S-glucosylated hydantoins

A new fluorescent assay for sialyltransferase455Yasuhiro Kajihara, Toshimi Kamitani, Tohru Saka-kibara (Yokohama, Japan)

461 Boat conformations: Synthesis, NMR spectroscopy, and molecular dynamics ofBruce Coxon (Bethesda MD, Gaithersburg MD,methyl 4,6-O-benzylidene-3-deoxy-3-phthalimido-�-D-altropyranoside derivativesUSA), Robert C. Reynolds (Gaithersburg MD, USA)

469 Author Index of Volume 331

Subject Index of Volume 331471

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