SYNTHETIC RECEPTOR ANALOGUES: PREPARATION OF THE 3-O-METHYL, 3-C-METHYL, AND 3-DEOXY DERIVATIVES OF METHYL 4-O-α-D-GALACTOPYRANOSYL-β-D-GALACTOPYRANOSIDE (METHYL β-D-GALABIOSIDE)

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/S0008-6215(00)90292-1

Methyl β-D-galactopyranoside was transformed into methyl 2-O-benzyl- (5, 24percent) and 2-O-benzyloxymethyl-4,6-O-benzylidene-β-D-galactopyranoside (8, 60percent) in two and four steps respectively.Compounds 5 and 8 were then transformed into the correspo