Md. Burkart et al., A NEW METHOD FOR THE SYNTHESIS OF FLUORO-CARBOHYDRATES AND GLYCOSIDESUSING SELECTFLUOR, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 119(49), 1997, pp. 11743-11746
This paper describes a high-yield, one-step synthesis of 2-deoxy-2-flu
oro sugars and their glycosides from glycals using the available elect
rophilic fluorination reagent omethyl-4-fluoro-1,4-diazoniabicyclol[2.
2.2]octane bis(tetrafluoroborate) (Selectfluor) in the presence of a n
ucleophile. The method was further expanded to the synthesis of glycos
yl fluorides and glycosides from anomeric hydroxy or thioglycoside der
ivatives.