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Unsymmetrical tetraether analogues of glycolipids found in archaebacte
ria, possessing either two different carbohydrate units or a saccharid
ic moiety and a phosphate group as polar heads and a quasi-macrocyclic
lipid core, are efficiently synthesized from versatile chiral buildin
g blocks.