Closing a gap in the literature, this comprehensive book presents such carbohydrate tools as chiral auxiliaries, reagents, complex ligands and organocatalysts, together with details of their preparation, as well as their successful application in stereoselective synthesis. It covers the synthesis of carbohydrate tools, and discusses examples for a broad range of different reactions compared to those obtained with the best conventional methods. An indispensable source for every organic chemist.