Saccharides are water-soluble and have structural diversity owing to their numerous hydroxyl groups.
These characters made it rather difficult to realize artificial receptors. On the other hand, recent development of carbohydrate chemistry has revealed an important role of saccharides in living systems. And the mechanism of saccharide-recognition in vivo have been elucidated gradually. These circumstances stimulated the research on artificial receptors for saccharides. In this paper, development of artificial receptors for saccharides in the past decade is described.