Synthetic oligorhamnans related to the most common O-chain backbone from phytopathogenic bacteria

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/j.tet.2006.06.084

The synthesis of the tetrasaccharide rhamnanic motif α-l-Rha-(1→3)-α-l-Rha-(1→2)-α-l-Rha-(1→ 2)-α-l-Rha and its dimerization to octasaccharide have been developed. Three different pathways toward the dimerization have been investigated; the best one was b