An efficient and unprecedented palladium‐catalyzed S‐glycosylation reaction of a range of alkenyl and alkynyl halides by using thiosugars as nucleophile partners has been established. With palladium diacetate in combination with Xantphos as the catalytic system, a variety of β‐alkenylthioglycosides as well as β‐alkynylthioglycosides can be prepared in good to excellent yields. The efficiency of this
A general protocol for functionalization of glycosyl thiols has been reported. This protocol is based on a single-electron Ni/photoredox dual-catalyzed cross coupling between 1-thiosugars and a broad range of aryl bromides and iodides as well as alkenyl and alkynyl halides. This base-free method gives access to a series of functionalized thioglycosides in moderate to excellent yields with a perfect control of the anomeric configuration. Moreover, it has been shown that this methodology may be transposed successfully to the continuous-flow photoredox chemistry.