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Nature Chemical Biology 3, 309 - 310 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nchembio0607-309
Sugars synthesized in a snap
Peng George Wang1
- Peng George Wang is in the Departments of Biochemistry and Chemistry, Ohio State University, 484 W. 12th Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA. e-mail: wang.892@osu.edu
Abstract
The chemical synthesis of natural oligosaccharides by sequentially stitching monosaccharides together remains a major challenge because of the complexity of carbohydrate structures. A recent paper reports a versatile technology for creating selectively protected synthetic intermediates, thus providing easy access to complex oligosaccharides.
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