An efficient stereoselective synthesis of enantiomerically pure mono- and di-O-hexadecyl-β-D-glucosylglycerol ethers by epoxidation of an allyl β-D-glucopyranaside asymmetrically induced by the glucide moiety

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/S0957-4166(97)00041-4

1-O-Hexadecyl and 1,2-di-O-hexadecyl-3-O-(β-D-glucopyranosyl)-sn-glycerol ethers were obtained by regiospecific opening of the oxirane ring of the 2',3'-epoxypropyl 2-O-acetyl-3,4,6-tri-O-benzyl-β-D-glucopyranoside synthetized by stereoselective epoxidati