Description:Content: Applications of ethylboron compounds in carbohydrate chemistry / R. Köster and W.V. Dahlhoff -- New aspects of synthesis with benzylidene acetals / Derek Horton and Wolfgang Weckerle -- Innovations in synthetic carbohydrate chemistry : practical and conceptual approaches to glycoside synthesis / Stephen Hanessian and Joseph Banoub -- Some aspects of organic synthesis on modified C-nucleosides, oxaprostaglandines, and aminoglycoside antibiotics / S.D. Gero, J. Cleophax, D. Mercier, and A. Olesker -- Stereochemistry of nitrogen heterocycles containing sugar : a generalized circular dichroism rule / Hassan S. El Khadem -- Synthesis of 2-amino-2-deoxy-[beta]-D-glucopyranosides : properties and use of 2-deoxy-2-phthalimidoglycosyl halides / R.U. Lemieux, T. Takeda, and B.Y. Chung -- Some aspects of the chemistry of D-glucal / I.D. Blackburne, A.I.R. Burfitt, P.F. Fredericks, and R.D. Guthrie -- Methods for introducing atoms other than oxygen into sugar rings / Roy L. Whistler and Abul K.M. Anisuzzaman -- Stereoselective synthesis and properties of 1-0-acyl-D-glucopyranoses / Philip E. Pfeffer, Gordon G. Moore, Peter D. Hoagland, and Edward S. Rothman -- Preparation and characterization of 1,6-anhydro-3,4-dideoxy-[beta]-D-glycero-hex-3-enopyranos-2-ulose / Fred Shafizadeh and Peter P.S. Chin -- Formation and conversion of phenylhydrazones and osazones of carbohydrates / Helmut Simon and Adolf Kraus -- Synthesis of polyhydroxyalkyl heterocycles / F. Garcia Gonzalez, J. Fernandez-Bolaños, and F.J. Lopez Aparicio -- Synthesis of chiral hydrocarbons from carbohydrates / G. Louis, G. Knauel, F. Micheel, and M. Pesenacker -- Synthesis of new sugar derivatives of biogenic amines / Laszlo Mester and Madeleine Mester -- Studies on the synthesis of serologically active glycolipids / Roy Gigg.