Jiménez Blanco José L, Bootello Purificación, Ortiz Mellet Carmen, Gutiérrez Gallego Ricardo, García Fernández José M
Departamento de Química Orgánica, Facultad de Química, Universidad de Sevilla, Apartado 553, E-41071 Sevilla, Spain.
Chem Commun (Camb). 2004 Jan 7(1):92-3. doi: 10.1039/b312743p. Epub 2003 Nov 18.
A blockwise iterative synthetic strategy for the preparation of linear, dendritic and branched full-carbohydrate architectures has been developed by using sugar azido(carbamate) isothiocyanates as key templates; the presence of intersaccharide thiourea bridges provides anchoring points for hydrogen bond-directed molecular recognition of phosphate esters in water.