Abstract
Vaccination is the most cost-efficient and the most powerful medical intervention in the control, prevention and eradication of many diseases that affect human population. Capsular polysaccharide based vaccines have been in use for many decades providing immunity against various bacterial infections. The advent of new efficient and sensitive analytical and synthetic methods in carbohydrate chemistry, together with our increased understanding of glycobiology and glycoim-munology, makes the development of carbohydrate based vaccines against various cancers possible. This review article describes the biological basis of vaccination and summarizes the recent progress in the development of carbohydrate based glycoconjugate vaccines with particular emphasis on structure, function and chemistry of glycoconjugates.
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Catalytic C-H bond activation as a tool for functionalization of heterocycles
The major topic is the functionalization of heterocycles through catalyzed C-H bond activation. The strategies based on C-H activation not only provide straightforward formation of C-C or C-X bonds but, more importantly, allow for the avoidance of pre-functionalization of one or two of the cross-coupling partners. The beneficial impact of ...read more
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