The reactivity of dispiroketal protected thioglycosides makes them useful new precursors for oligossaccharide synthesis as is illustrated by the preparation of a protected pentasaccharide unit common to the variant surface glycoprotein of Trypanosoma brucei.
双螺酮保护的
硫糖苷的反应活性使其成为
寡糖合成的有用的新前体,如制备布鲁氏锥虫变体表面糖蛋白共有的受保护的五糖单元所示。