O. Varela et al., SYNTHESIS OF 2',3'-UNSATURATED NUCLEOSIDES BY SNCL4-PROMOTED CONDENSATION OF GLYCALS WITH PYRIMIDINES, Anales de la Asociacion Quimica Argentina, 81(4-5), 1993, pp. 269-275
The tin(IV) chloride-promoted allylic rearrangement of 3,4-di-O-acetyl
-L-rhamnal in the presence of the trimethylsilsyl derivative of uracil
or thymine led to the corresponding -trideoxy-L-erithro-hex-2'-enopyr
anosyl)pyrimidine derivative as a mixture of and beta anomers, with go
od yield. The mixture was readily separated by flash chromatography.