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This comprehensive resource emphasizes the highly diverse and crucial role of carbohydrates as antiinflammatory, anticancer, antidiabetic, anticonvulsant, antibiotic, and antiviral agents - covering chemical properties, biological functions, state-of-the-art methodologies for synthesizing model compounds, conformational and steric effects, synthetic and enzymatic approaches, and the discovery and development of new leads in emerging fields. Furnished with over 2350 references, tables, equations, and figures, this stimulating and readily accessible volume is essential for organic, medicinal, carbohydrate, and pharmaceutical chemists; biochemists; pharmacologists; glycobiologists; cancer researchers; and graduate-level students in these disciplines.