Carbohydrate building blocks /
Mikael Bols.
- New York, N.Y. ; Chichester : J. Wiley, c1996.
- ix,182p. : ill. ; 24cm.
Includes indexes.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Serves as a reference for synthetic organic chemists in search of starting materials for synthesizing chiral compounds. The book points out which carbohydrates are best used, and how to get them. Half of the book is a dictionary-like list of compounds that can be prepared form commercially cheap carbohydrates.