Nature has a whole battery of dedicated enzymes to make the complex links between sugar rings — how can synthetic chemists compete? An ingenious approach fills a big gap in the synthetic tool-kit.
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Flitsch, S. Glycosylation with a twist. Nature 437, 201–202 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/437201a
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