Preactivation-based chemoselective glycosylations: A powerful strategy for oligosaccharide assembly

• Weizhun Yang,
• Bo Yang,
• Sherif Ramadan and
• Xuefei Huang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2094–2114, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.207

• , which has been covered in other reviews [23][42], has been applied to successful synthesis of a range of complex oligosaccharides including human milk oligosaccharides [45], an embryonic stem cell surface carbohydrate marker Lc4 [46], Globo-H hexasaccharide [47], and heparin-like oligosaccharides [48

Chemical synthesis using enzymatically generated building units for construction of the human milk pentasaccharides sialyllacto-N-tetraose and sialyllacto-N-neotetraose epimer

• Dirk Schmidt and
• Joachim Thiem

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2010, 6, No. 18, doi:10.3762/bjoc.6.18

• derivatives. Keywords: block synthesis; human milk oligosaccharides; sialyllacto-N-neotetraose epimer; sialyllacto-N-tetraose; trisaccharide thioglycoside donors; Introduction From an inspection of contemporary syntheses of biologically and medicinally relevant oligosaccharides, it is evident that the

• , sialyllacto-N-tetraose (1) and an epimer of sialyllacto-N-neotetraose (2) (Figure 1) were selected as target molecules. Both these pentasaccharides, Neu5Acα2-3Galβ1-3GlcNAcβ1-3Galβ1-4Glc (1) and Neu5Acα2-6Galβ1-4GlcNAcβ1-4Galβ1-4Glc (2), are dominant constituents of complex human milk oligosaccharides (Figure

• human milk oligosaccharides are considered as soluble receptor analogues of epithelial cell surfaces [6]. Results and Discussion Previously, we reported the chemoenzymatic synthesis of the 3-sialylated lactosamine derivative 3 obtained by the enzymatic β-galactosylation of the 2-azidothioglucoside with