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ReviewACS central science2023

A Hitchhiker's Guide to Problem Selection in Carbohydrate Synthesis.

Xavier S Streety, Jennifer C Obike, Steven D Townsend

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Review in ACS central science, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Carbohydrate Synthesis is Entering the Data-Driven Digital Era.Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2025
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  6. Expediting Glycospace Exploration: Therapeutic Glycans via Automated Synthesis.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2025
    Review
  7. Synthesis of Fluorinated Glycotope Mimetics Derived fromInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  9. A Fluorinated Sialic Acid Vaccine Lead Against Meningitis B and C.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Xavier S StreetyDepartment of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, United States.
Jennifer C ObikeDepartment of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, United States.
Steven D TownsendDepartment of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5362-7235

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Oligosaccharides are ubiquitous in molecular biology and are used for functions ranging from governing protein folding to intercellular communication. Perhaps paradoxically, the exact role of the glycan in most of these settings is not well understood. One reason for this contradiction concerns the fact that carbohydrates often appear in heterogeneous form in nature. These mixtures complicate the isolation of pure material and characterization of structure-activity relationships. As a result, a major bottleneck in glycoscience research is the synthesis and modification of pure materials. While synthetic and chemoenzymatic methods have enabled access to homogeneous tool compounds, a central problem, particularly for newer synthetic chemists, is the matter of problem selection. This outlook aims to provide an entry level overview of fundamental principles in carbohydrate chemistry with an eye toward enabling solutions to frontier challenges.

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PMID37521800
PMCPMC10375882

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