Jm. Lassaletta et Rr. Schmidt, VERSATILE APPROACH TO THE SYNTHESIS OF GLOBOSIDE GLYCOSPHINGOLIPIDS -SYNTHESIS OF SIALYL-GALACTOSYL-GLOBOSIDE, Tetrahedron letters, 36(24), 1995, pp. 4209-4212
Sialyl-galactosyl-globoside (SGG, 1), carrying the SSEA-4 antigen, is
synthesized from readily available, versatile building blocks 2-7 in a
convergent manner. Thus, appropriately protected tetra- and pentasacc
harides 15 and 17 are generated, which constitute valuable intermediat
es for the synthesis of various other members of the globo-series of g
lycosphingolipids.