Regioselective Glycosylation Method Using Partially Protected Arabino- and Galactofuranosyl Thioglycosides as Key Glycosylating Substrates and Its Application to One-Pot Synthesis of Oligofuranoses

We describe in this paper the development of a novel regioselective furanosylation methodology using partially protected furanosyl thioglycosides as central glycosylating building blocks and its application in the efficient one-pot synthesis of a series of linear and branched-type arabino- and galactofuranoside fragments structurally related to the cell wall polysaccharides of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Streptococcus pneumoniae serostype 35A, and sugar beet.