SYNTHESIS OF THE TRI- AND TETRA-SACCHARIDES RELATED TO THE FINE STRUCTURES OF LICHENAN AND CEREAL β-D-GLUCANS

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/S0008-6215(00)90636-0

Syntheses, based on silver trifluoromethanesulfonate-promoted Koenigs-Knorr type condensations, are described of the D-glucotrioses, β-D-Glcp-(1->3)-β-D-Glcp-(1->4)-D-Glcp and β-D-Glcp-(1->4)-β-D-Glcp-(1->3)-D-Glcp, and the D-glucotetraoses, β-D-Glcp-(1->