The Journal of Carbohydrate Chemistry serves as a convenient, international forum for novel synthetic methods for carbohydrates; mechanistic carbohydrate chemistry; the uses of carbohydrates in national products, drugs, carbohydrate antibiotics, saccharides, and oligosaccharide syntheses; molecular modeling of carbohydrates; and the analysis of saccharide interconversions, carbohydrates as synthetic reagents, separation methods as applied to carbohydrate reactions and synthesis, and spectroscopic and crystallographic structure studies of carbohydrates.