Synthesis of peripheral trisaccharide sequence of lutropin, a pituitary glycoprotein hormone; use of chitobiose as a key starting material

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/0008-6215(90)80061-7

A chitobiose derivative, methyl O-(3,4,6-tri-O-acetyl-2-deoxy-2-phthalimido-β-D-glucopyranosyl)-(1->4)-3,6-di-O-acetyl-2-dexoy-2-phthalimido-β-D-glucopyranoside, was derived from the corresponding N-acetyl derivative and this was converted into the glycos