TOLUENE-DIOXYGENASE-MEDIATED CIS-DIHYDROXYLATION OF AROMATICS IN ENANTIOSELECTIVE SYNTHESIS - ITERATIVE GLYCOCONJUGATE COUPLING STRATEGY AND COMBINATORIAL DESIGN FOR THE SYNTHESIS OF OLIGOMERS OF NOR-SACCHARIDES, INOSITOLS AND PSEUDOSUGARS WITH INTERESTING MOLECULAR-PROPERTIES

dagger The authors wish to dedicate this article to the memory of Prof essor Wolfgang Oppolzer, who passed away on March 15, 1996. Professor Oppolzer's contributions to the art and craft of organic synthesis and his energetic career were cut short by this untimely tragedy, which h as left a serious void in the synthetic community. His intellectual ca pacity and his style of problem solving served as an example and inspi ration to many of us. Tomas Hudlicky was a postdoctoral fellow in Gene va during the early years of Professor Oppolzer's academic career. He credits much of this success as an independent investigator to the men torship he received in 1977-78 from Professor Oppolzer; he is deeply a ffected by the loss of one of the great practitioners.