CARBOHYDRATE RESEARCH aAT- + ELSEVIER Carbohydrate Research 295 (1996) C11-C12 Contents Regular Papers Crystal structures of (+ )-1,4-di-O-benzoyl-2,3-O-iso-propylidene-myo-inositol and (+ )-1,4-di-O-ben- zoyl-5,6-O-isopropylidene-myo-inositol: a conformational analysis S.-K. Chung, Y.-T. Chang, D. Whang and K. Kim (Pohang, South Korea) Synthesis of octyl O- and S-glycosides related to the GPI anchor of Trypanosoma brucei and their in vitro galactosylation by trypanosomal a-galactosyltransferases T. Ziegler, R. Dettmann (Cologne, Germany), M. Duszenko and V. Kolb (Tiibingen, Germany). . . Stereocontrolled syntheses of O-glycans of core class 2 with a linear tetrameric lactosamine chain and with three lactosamine branches Z.-G. Wang, X.-F. Zhang, Y. Ito, Y. Nakahara (Saitama, Japan) and T. Ogawa (Saitama, Tokyo, Conversion of p-methoxyphenyl glycosides into the corresponding glycosyl chlorides and bromides, and into thiophenyl glycosides Z. Zhang and G. Magnusson (Lund, Sweden) Synthesis of 2-( B-D-glycopyranosyl)nitroethenes and -nitroethanes via aldehydo derivatives M. PetruSova (Bratislava, Slovakia; West Lafayette, IN, USA), J.N. BeMiller (West Lafayette, IN, USA), A. Krihova (Bratislava, Slovakia) and L. Petrus (Bratislava, Slovakia; West Lafayette, IN, A novel chemical synthesis of a 3-deoxy-D-arabino-heptulosonic acid 7-phosphate (DAHP) derivative and its 2-deoxy analogue J. Mtynarski and A. Banaszek (Warsaw, Poland) Synthesis of O-glycopyranosyl heterocyclic ketene aminals and their use as glycosyl donors Z.-J. Li, L.-B. Wang and Z.-T. Huang (Beijing, People’s Republic of China) Structure of the cyclic glucan produced from amylopectin by Bacillus stearothermophilus branching enzyme H. Takata, T. Takaha, S. Okada (Osaka, Japan), S. Hizukuri (Kagoshima, Japan), M. Takagi and T. Imanaka (Osaka, Japan) Purification and characterization of a (1 — 3)-B-p-glucan-binding protein from horseshoe crab (Tachypleus tridentatus) amoebocytes H. Tamura (Urawa, Tokyo, Japan), S. Tanaka, T. Oda, Y. Uemura, J. Aketagawa (Tokyo, Japan) and Y. Hashimoto (Urawa, Japan) C12 Contents Structure of the O-specific polysaccharide of Hafnia alvei PCM 1222 containing 2-aminoethy] phosphate F.V. Toukach, A.S. Shashkov (Moscow, Russian Federation), E. Katzenellenbogen (Wroclaw, Poland), N.A. Kocharova (Moscow, Russian Federation), A. Czarny (Wroclaw, Poland), Y.A. Knirel (Moscow, Russian Federation), E. Romanowska (Wroclaw, Poland) and N.K. Kochetkov (Moscow, Russian Federation) The structures of oligosaccharides isolated from the lipopolysaccharide of Moraxella catarrhalis serotype B, strain CCUG 3292 P. Edebrink (Stockholm, Sweden), P.-E. Jansson (Huddinge, Sweden), G. Widmalm, T. Holme and M. Rahman (Stockholm, Sweden) The structure of the exopolysaccharide produced by the halophilic Archaeon Haloferax mediterranei strain R4 (ATCC 33500) H. Parolis, L.A.S. Parolis (Grahamstown, South Africa), I.F. Boan, F. Rodriguez-Valera (Alicante, Spain), G. Widmalm, M.C. Manca (Stockholm, Sweden), P.-E. Jansson (Huddinge, Sweden) and I.W. Sutherland (Edinburgh, UK) Disulfated oligosaccharides derived from tracheobronchial mucous glycoproteins of a patient suffering from cystic fibrosis D.L. Chance and T.P. Mawhinney (Columbia, MO, USA) Structure of the O-specific polysaccharide from Burkholderia vietnamiensis strain LMG 6998 D. Gaur and S.G. Wilkinson (Hull, UK) Quantitative analysis of wheat starch—water suspensions by pulsed NMR spectroscopy measurements Y.L. Rugraff, P. Desbois and D.J. Le Botlan (Nantes, France) Chemical and structural features of kiwifruit cell walls: Comparison of fruit and suspension-cultured cells M. Fischer, T.F. Wegryzn, I.C. Hallett and R.J. Redgwell (Auckland, New Zealand) Synthesis and NMR assignment of two repeating units (decasaccharide) of the type III group B Streptococcus capsular polysaccharide and its '*C-labeled and N-propionyl! substituted sialic acid analogues W. Zou, J.-R. Brisson, Q.-L. Yang, M. van der Zwan and H.J. Jennings (Ottawa, Canada) Notes The study of the relationship between retention and structure on D-mannose and its derivatives with high-performance anion-exchange chromatography Z. Li, S. Mou, W. Liao and D. Lu (Beijing, People’s Republic of China) Synthesis of glycofuranosides from S-glycofuranosy] dithiocarbonates (xanthates) and dithiocarbamates J. Bogusiak (Sosnowiec, Poland) and W. Szeja (Gliwice, Poland) Isolation and characterization of an amino sugar-rich glycopeptide from the surface layer glycoprotein of Thermoanaerobacterium thermosaccharolyticum E207-7| E. Altman (Ottawa, Canada), C. Schaffer (Vienna, Austria), J.-R. Brisson (Ottawa, Canada) and P. Messner (Vienna, Austria) Book Review Author Index I o-6 :5" dnd dk ob 0 oo w Oe CO 6 Oe ee bee ee ee 68 Be Oo Contents