Front Matter -- Protecting Group Strategies in Carbohydrate Chemistry / Anne G Volbeda, Gijs A Marel, Jeroen D C Codée -- Protecting Groups at the Primary Position of Carbohydrates / Marion Donnier-Maréchal, Sébastien Vidal, Michele Fiore -- Protecting Groups at the Secondary Positions of Carbohydrates / Sébastien Vidal, Peter G Goekjian -- Regioselective Protection at the Secondary Positions of Carbohydrates with Acyclic Protecting Groups / Peter G Goekjian, Sébastien Vidal -- Protecting Groups at the Anomeric Position of Carbohydrates / Chadamas Sakonsinsiri, W Bruce Turnbull -- N-protecting Groups for 2-Amino-2-deoxy-glycosides / Sébastien Vidal -- One-pot Multistep Regioselective Protection of Carbohydrates Catalyzed by Acids / Jean-Marie Beau, Yann Bourdreux, Guillaume Despras, Alexandra Gouasmat, Géraldine San Jose, Dominique Urban, Boris Vauzeilles -- Acyl Migrations in Carbohydrate Chemistry / Filip S Ekholm, Reko Leino -- De Novo Asymmetric Synthesis of Oligosaccharides Using Atom-less Protecting Groups / Debarpita Ray, George A O'Doherty -- Protecting Group Strategies for Sialic Acid Derivatives / Harsha Amarasekara, Szymon Buda, Appi R Mandhapati, David Crich -- Strategies Toward Protection of 1,2- and 1,3-Diols in Carbohydrate Chemistry / Marie Schuler, Arnaud Tatibouët -- Protecting Group Strategies Toward Glycofuranoses / Vincent Ferrières, Laurent Legentil, Loïc Lemiègre -- Cyclodextrin Chemistry via Selective Protecting Group Manipulations / Juan M Benito, José M García Fernández -- Protecting Group Strategies Toward Sulfated Glycosaminoglycans / Hélène Ledru, Pascal Matton, Jean-Maurice Mallet, Chrystel Lopin-Bon -- Applications of Fluorous and Ionic Liquid Tags in Oligosaccharide Synthesis / Imke Sittel, M Carmen Galan -- Orthogonally Protected Building Blocks for Automated Glycan Assembly / Fabian Pfrengle, Peter H Seeberger -- Kilogram-scale Production of Synthetic Heparin Analogs: Some Chemical Considerations / Patrick Trouilleux, Pierre Potier, Pierre-Alexandre Driguez.