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