Efficient synthetic strategy for oligosaccharides has been developed by exploiting the difference in anomeric reactivity between glycosyldonors and acceptors carrying phosphorus-containing leaving groups, wherein the tetramethylphosphoroamidate group plays a pivotal role as anomeric protective group as well as leaving group.
An extremely mild and general method for the stereocontrolled construction of 1,2-cis-glycosidic linkages via S-glycopyranosyl phosphorodiamidimidothioates