Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biochemistry: Structure and Mechanism - Hardcover

Sinnott, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0854042563 ISBN 13: 9780854042562

Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry, 2007

Synopsis

This monograph is aimed at providing researchers new to the subject with information on the structure and mechanisms in the chemistry, biochemistry or processing of carbohydrates. The book contains everything the reader needs to know about a non-synthetic carbohydrate research project. It gives excellent coverage of carbohydrate chemistry and biochemistry, particularly including the principles of reactivity in the process industries, such as pulp, paper and food. It also employs use of the same concepts to describe enzymic and non-enzymic reactivity.

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From the Back Cover

Carbohydrates play important roles in biological systems as energy sources, as structural materials, and as informational structures (when they are often attached to proteins or lipids). Their chemical reactivity and conformational behaviour is governed by mechanistic and stereochemical rules.

About the Author

Michael Sinnott received his first degree in Chemistry from University of Oxford in 1966 and a PhD in Organic Chemistry from Bristol in 1968. After a postdoctoral at Stanford in Bioorganic Chemistry, he returned to Bristol and progressed up the academic ranks until he left, as Reader in Bioorganic Chemistry, in 1987 to become Professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He returned to the United Kingdom in 1996 for family reasons becoming Professor of Paper Science at UMIST. Progression of longstanding orthopaedic problems facilitated his retirement from UMIST, but he continues his scholarly and research supervision activities at University of Huddersfield. He has published 120 research papers, two books, and edited and contributed to the four-volume set ""Comprehensive Biological Catalysis"".

Edition details

• Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0854042563
• ISBN 13: 9780854042562
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 766