Total synthesis of candicanoside A, a rearranged cholestane disaccharide, and its 4″-O-(p-methoxybenzoate) congener
Candicanoside A (1) and its 4″-O-(p-methoxybenzoate) derivative 2 are congeners of the novel 24(23→22)abeo-cholestane glycosides that occur in the genus Ornithogalum indigenous to Southern Africa and have remarkable cytostatic activities. These two saponi