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This monograph is aimed at providing researchers new to the subject with information on the structure and mechanisms in the chemistry, biochemistry or processing of carbohydrates. The book contains everything the reader needs to know about a non-synthetic carbohydrate research project. It gives excellent coverage of carbohydrate chemistry and biochemistry, particularly including the principles of reactivity in the process industries, such as pulp, paper and food. It also employs use of the same concepts to describe enzymic and non-enzymic reactivity.
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Unique in its approach, this book clearly brings the structures, reactions, and biological processing of carbohydrates into the realm of physical organic chemistry. Sinnott (Univ. of Huddersfield, UK), trained and experienced in the field of physical organic chemistry, has succeeded in his goal to produce a graduate-level work on structure and mechanism in carbohydrate chemistry and biochemistry. Readers should possess a strong undergraduate background in biochemistry, organic chemistry, and physical chemistry. The book covers the structure and conformation of monosaccharides, nucleophilic substitution at the anomeric center, structure and conformation of oligosaccharides and polysaccharides, enzyme-catalyzed glycosyl transfer reactions, two-electron reactions at carbons other than the anomeric center, and one-electron reactions of carbohydrates. Sinnott discusses why carbohydrates adopt particular structures and conformations, and how those structures and conformations have been determined using physical chemical principles that require the ability to understand advanced mathematical reasoning. Likewise, the explanations of both enzymatic and nonenzymatic reactions require the ability to follow complex kinetic studies. References are thorough and current. This work provides a good starting point for new researchers to the field. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students through professionals/practitioners. L. J. Liotta Stonehill College
