“One-pot” protection, glycosylation, and protection–glycosylation strategies of carbohydrates

SS Kulkarni, CC Wang, NM Sabbavarapu… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Carbohydrates, which are ubiquitously distributed throughout the three domains of life, play
significant roles in a variety of vital biological processes. Access to unique and …

Chemical synthesis of polysaccharides

S Wang, Y Yang, Q Zhu, GQ Lin, B Yu - Current Opinion in Chemical …, 2022 - Elsevier
Here we summarize the chemical syntheses of glycans containing over 20 monosaccharide
units, with the recent syntheses of ultra-long glycans, including a 92mer arabinogalactan, a …

Total synthesis of mycobacterial arabinogalactan containing 92 monosaccharide units

Y Wu, DC Xiong, SC Chen, YS Wang, XS Ye - Nature communications, 2017 - nature.com
Carbohydrates are diverse bio-macromolecules with highly complex structures that are
involved in numerous biological processes. Well-defined carbohydrates obtained by …

Chemical synthesis of glycans up to a 128-mer relevant to the O-antigen of Bacteroides vulgatus

Q Zhu, Z Shen, F Chiodo, S Nicolardi… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Glycans are involved in various life processes and represent critical targets of biomedical
developments. Nevertheless, the accessibility to long glycans with precise structures …

Synthesis of branched arabinogalactans up to a 140-mer from Panax notoginseng and their anti-pancreatic-cancer activity

X Qin, C Xu, M Liu, F Zeng, W Yao, Y Deng, T Xu… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
RN1, a highly branched arabinogalactan isolated from the flower of Panax notoginseng,
possesses a potent ability to inhibit the development of pancreatic cancer. Due to the …

Merging Reagent Modulation and Remote Anchimeric Assistance for Glycosylation: Highly Stereoselective Synthesis of α‐Glycans up to a 30‐mer

Y Zhang, H He, Z Chen, Y Huang, G Xiang… - Angewandte …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The efficient synthesis of long, branched, and complex carbohydrates containing multiple 1,
2‐cis glycosidic linkages is a long‐standing challenge. Here, we report a merging reagent …

Gold-catalyzed glycosylation in the synthesis of complex carbohydrate-containing natural products

W Li, B Yu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
The methodological developments in gold (I)-and gold (III)-catalyzed glycosylation reactions
are fully surveyed, which exploit the special alkynophilicity or the Lewis acidity of the gold …

Well-defined oligo-and polysaccharides as ideal probes for structural studies

M Delbianco, A Kononov, A Poveda, Y Yu… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Polysaccharides are the most abundant organic materials in nature, yet correlations
between their three-dimensional structure and macroscopic properties have not been …

Novel NMR avenues to explore the conformation and interactions of glycans

P Valverde, JI Quintana, JI Santos, A Ardá… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
This perspective article is focused on the presentation of the latest advances in NMR
methods and applications that are behind the exciting achievements in the understanding of …

Total synthesis of Lentinus giganteus glycans with antitumor activities via stereoselective α-glycosylation and orthogonal one-pot glycosylation strategies

Y Zhang, Y Hu, S Liu, H He, R Sun, G Lu, G Xiao - Chemical Science, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The accessibility to long, branched and complex glycans containing many 1, 2-cis glycosidic
linkages with precise structures remains a challenging task in chemical synthesis. Reported …