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Octahydroquinolizine-1,2,3,8-tetraols 12, 16 and 23, analogs of castan
ospermine, were synthesized from D-glucose, L-arabinose and D-mannose,
respectively, using hetero-Diels-Alder reactions of sugar-derived azo
methines as the key step.