electron-deficient alkenes yielded, in all cases, adducts in which the sugar side-chain and the added group on C-4 of the cyclohexene ring showed a trans-relationship. Furthermore, some of the adducts have been used to prepare enantiomerically pure 4-alkyl-5-formyl-4-nitrocyclohex-1-enes by a two-step process involving base-catalyzed (NaOMe) deacetylation of their respective sugar side-chains and subsequent