Description:Content: Cycloaddition reactions in carbohydrate chemistry : an overview / Robert M. Giuliano -- Carbohydrate dienophiles in [4 + 2] cycloadditions / Richard W. Franck -- Pyranose-derived dienes and conjugated enals : preparation and Diels-Alder cycloaddition reactions / J. Cristóbal López and Gabor Lukacs -- Synthesis of [beta]-lactams from unsaturated sugars and isocyanates / Marek Chmielewski, Zbigniew Kaluża, Jacek Grodner, and Romuald Urbański -- Diels-Alder cycloaddition to unsaturated sugars : stereocontrol as a function of structure and stereochemistry / Derek Horton, Dongsoo Koh, Yasushi Takagi, and Takayuki Usui -- The [4 + 2] cycloaddition of azodicarboxylates and cyclic vinyl ethers : application to the synthesis of simple and complex 2-aminosaccharides / Yves Leblanc and Marc Labelle -- Glycosylmanganese pentacarbonyl complexes : an organomanganese-based approach to the synthesis of C-glycosyl derivatives / Philip DeShong, Greg A. Slough, D. Richard Sidler, Varadaraj Elango, Philip J. Rybczynski, Laura J. Smith, Thomas A. Lessen, Thuy X. Le, and Gary B. Anderson -- Inter- and intramolecular Diels-Alder reactions of sugar derivatives / Pál Herczegh, Martina Zsély, László Szilágyi, István Bajza, Árpád Kovács, Gyula Batta, and Rezsö Bognár -- Carbohydrates as chiral templates in stereoselective [4 + 2] cycloaddition reactions / Horst Kunz, Bernd Müller, Waldemar Pfrengle, Karola Rück, and Wolfgang Stähle -- Aqueous cycloadditions using glycoorganic substrates : stereo- and physicochemical aspects / André Lubineau, Jacques Augé, Hugues Bienaymé, Nadège Lubin, and Yves Queneau -- Stereoselectivity of 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of glycosyl nitrones to N-arylmaleimides / L. Fišera, U.A.R. Al-Timari, and P. Ertl.