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The readily available tri-unsaturated trisaccharide 4 undergoes a stereosel
ective cascade of reductive rearrangements with TIBAL (triisobutylaluminium
) to afford, after oxidative workup, the (1-->4) ether-linked trisaccharide
mimetics 3 and 10.