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Knud Jensen and colleagues from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, discuss the use of carbohydrates as templates in the design of model proteins called carboproteins.  The model proteins could be used in nanobioelectronics and catalysis.

Perspective

Xin-Shan Ye and colleagues from Peking University, China, review a new one-pot strategy for the synthesis of oligosaccharides.

Emerging Area

Kazunori Tsubaki from Kyoto University, Japan, gives an overview of recent work on the bottom-up synthesis of helical oligonaphthalenes.