CHEMICAL SYNTHESIS OF DISACCHARIDES OF THE SPECIFIC PHENOLIC GLYCOLIPID ANTIGENS FROM MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE AND OF RELATED SUGARS

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/S0008-6215(00)90396-3

O-(3,6-Di-O-methyl-β-D-glucopyranosyl)-(1<*>4)-2,3-di-O-methyl-L-rhamnopyranose, which is the nonreducing disaccharide of the haptenic trisaccharide of the Mycobacterium leprae-specific, phenolic glycolipid I, O-(6-O-methyl-β-D-glucopyranosyl)-(1<*>4)-2,3