Morais Goreti Ribeiro, Humphrey Andrew J, Falconer Robert A
Institute of Cancer Therapeutics, School of Life Sciences, University of Bradford, Bradford, UK.
Carbohydr Res. 2009 May 26;344(8):1039-45. doi: 10.1016/j.carres.2009.03.017. Epub 2009 Mar 21.
The synthesis of 1,1-thiodisaccharide trehalose analogues in good to excellent yields by a Lewis acid (BF(3).Et(2)O)-catalysed coupling of sugar per-O-acetate with thiosugar is described. The reactivity of different sugar per-O-acetates and thiosugars is explored.