CARBOHYDRATE il RESEARCH IER Carbohydrate Research 263 (1994) C15—C17 CONTENTS The composition of reducing sugars in dimethyl sulfoxide solution S.J. Angyal (Sydney, Australia) A quantitative approach to describe the overall motion of monosaccharides in solution. A a * NMR relaxation study of 1,6-anhydro-B-p-glucopyranose in dimethyl sulfoxide P. Dais (Iraklion, Crete, Greece) Complexation of trivalent lanthanide cations by sugars and alditols in water: chromatography— calorimetry comparison Y. Israéli, J.-P. Morel and N. Morel-Desrosiers (Aubiére, France) Crystal and molecular structure of allyl O-(sodium 3-deoxy-a-p-manno-2-octulopyranosylonate) - (2 — 8)-O-(sodium 3-deoxy-a-b-manno-2-octulopyranosidonate )-monohydrate V. Mikol (Basel, Switzerland), P. Kosma (Wien, Austria) and H. Brade (Borstel, Germany). . Synthesis of 4,6:2’,3’:4’,6’-tri-O-cyclohexylidene-a,a’-trehalose 2-palmitate: an intermediate for the synthesis of mycobacterial 2,3-di-O-acyl-a,a’-trehalose antigens P.A. Wallace and D.E. Minnikin (Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom) One-pot synthesis of 1,2-O-isopropylidene-a-p-xylofuranose J. Moravcova, J. Capkova and J. Stanék (Prague, Czech Republic) Synthesis of a-p-galactopyranosyl-linked oligosaccharides containing the a-Gal — B-Gal > GlcNAc sequence employing methyl-2,3,4,6-tetra-O-(4-methoxybenzyl)-1-thio-B-p-galac- topyranoside as an efficient glycosyl donor G.V. Reddy, R.K. Jain, B.S. Bhatti and K.L. Matta (Buffalo, NY, USA) Structure elucidation of an acetylated saponin of Blighia welwitschii by NMR spectroscopy A. Penders and C. Delaude (Liege, Belgium) Characterisation of an anti-ulcer pectic polysaccharide from leaves of Panax ginseng C.A. Meyer H. Kiyohara, M. Hirano, X.-G. Wen, T. Matsumoto, X.-B. Sun and H. Yamada (Tokyo, Composition of the coagulant polysaccharide fraction from Strychnos potatorum seeds M. Adinolfi, M.M. Corsaro, R. Lanzetta, M. Parrilli (Napoli, Italy), G. Folkard, W. Grant and J. Sutherland (Leicester, United Kingdom) An antitumor, branched (1 — 3)-8-p-glucan from a water extract of fruiting bodies of Crypto- porus volvatus S. Kitamura, T. Hori, K. Kurita, K. Takeo (Kyoto, Japan), C. Hara (Gifu, Japan), W. Itoh, K. Tabata (Kobe, Japan), A. Elgasaeter and B.T. Stokke (Trondheim, Norway) C16 Contents / Carbohydr. Res. 263 (1994) C15—C17 Studies of the transglycosylation reaction catalysed by the decycling maltodextrinase of Flavobacterium sp. no. 92 with malto-oligosaccharides and cyclodextrins H. Bender (Freiburg i.Br., FRG) Studies of the action pattern on potato starch of the decycling maltodextrinase from Flavobac- terium sp. no. 92 H. Bender (Freiburg i.Br., FRG) Notes The unusually stable crystal structure of neo-inositol S.J. Angyal and D.C. Craig (Sydney, Australia) Application of the 2°Si NMR 2D INEPT spin-flip J-resolved technique to the structural analysis of trimethylsilylated glycosides M. Harket, B. De Jeso, J.-C. Lartigue, M. Petraud and M. Ratier (Talence, France) Solubility of lactulose trihydrate T. Mizota, I. Suzawa, N. Seki, Y. Tamura and S. Shimamura (Kanagawa, Japan) Inhibition of bacterial and viral sialidases by 3-fluoro-N-acetylneuraminic acid T. Hagiwara, I. Kijima-Suda (Saitama, Japan), T. Ido, H. Ohrui (Sendai, Japan) and K. Tomita (Saitama, Japan) Regular papers Synthesis, NMR, and conformational studies of methyl a-p-mannopyranoside 2-, 3-, 4-, and 6-monophosphates C. Bernlind, S$. Oscarson and G. Widmalm (Stockholm, Sweden) Total synthesis of a modified ganglioside, de-N-acetyl GM , S. Fujita, M. Numata, M. Sugimoto, K. Tomita (Saitama, Japan) and T. Ogawa (Tokyo, The thermodynamic characteristics of the conformational transitions of native xanthan L. Bezemer, M.E. Kuil and J.C. Leyte (Leiden, Netherlands) Structural studies of the Escherichia coli 090 O-antigen polysaccharide S. Ratnayake, G. Widmalm (Stockholm, Sweden), A. Weintraub and E.C. Medina (Hud- dinge, Sweden) ; Structural comparison of the O6 specific polysaccharides from E. coli O06:K2:H1, E. coli O06:K13:H1, and E. coli 06: K54:H10 B. Jann (Freiburg, Germany), A.A. Shashkov (Moscow, Russian Federation), H. Kochanowski and K. Jann (Freiburg, Germany) Isolation and purification of feruloylated oligosaccharides from cell walls of sugar-beet pulp M.-C. Ralet (Nantes, France), C.B. Faulds, G. Williamson (Norwich, United Kingdom) and J.-F. Thibault (Nantes, France) Structure identification of feruloylated oligosaccharides from sugar-beet pulp by NMR spec- troscopy 1.J. Colquhoun (Norwich, United Kingdom), M.-C. Ralet, J.-F. Thibault (Nantes, France), C.B. Faulds and G. Williamson (Norwich, United Kingdom) Contents / Carbohydr. Res. 263 (1994) C15—C17 Degradation of feruloylated oligosaccharides from sugar-beet pulp and wheat bran by ferulic acid esterases from Aspergillus niger M.-C. Ralet (Nantes, France), C.B. Faulds, G. Williamson (Norwich, United Kingdom) and J.-F. Thibault (Nantes, France) Heparin-like compounds prepared by chemical modification of capsular polysaccharide from E. coli K5 B. Casu, G. Grazioli (Milan, Italy), N. Razi (Uppsala, Sweden), M. Guerrini, A. Naggi, G. Torri, P. Oreste, F. Tursi, G. Zoppetti (Milan, Italy) and U. Lindahl (Uppsala, Sweden)... . Sequencing of xyloglucan oligosaccharides by partial Driselase digestion: the preparation and quantitative and qualitative analysis of two new tetrasaccharides E.P. Lorences and S.C. Fry (Edinburgh, United Kingdom) Notes Convenient synthetic approach towards C-3 modified methyl B-lactosides Y. Nishida and J. Thiem (Hamburg, Germany) Sugar B-ketoesters: new chirons in the synthesis of 6-deoxyheptulosurono-7,4-lactones D.D. Dhavale, N.N. Bhujbal, P. Joshi and $.G. Desai (Pune, India) Unsaturated ketonucleotides: synthesis of a and B anomers of 1-(2,3-dideoxy-6-O-diethoxyphos- phoryl-p-glycero-hex-2-enopyranosyl-4-tuhlymoisnee F. Leclercq and K. Antonakis (Villejuif, France) FTIR studies of sodium hyaluronate and its oligomers in the amorphous solid phase and in aqueous solution R. Gilli (Trieste, Italy), M. Kacurakova, M. Mathlouthi (Reims, France), L. Navarini and S. Paoletti (Trieste, Italy) The structure of the Citrobacter freundii O8a,8b O-specific polysaccharide containing p-xylo- furanose N.A. Kocharova, Y.A. Knirel, A.S. Shashkov, N.K. Kochetkov, E.V. Kholodkova and E.S. Stanislavsky (Moscow, Russian Federation) Preliminary communication Total synthesis of sulfated Le* pentaosyl ceramide S. Numomura, M. lida, M. Numata, M. Sugimoto (Saitama, Japan) and T. Ogawa (Tokyo, Cl Book review C7 Author index C9 | er ea ar eee oe re ee ae ae ee ee a ee ee Cll Contents