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A novel linker system has been designed, and its first application to solid
-phase oligosaccharide synthesis is described, The use of the highly reacti
ve o-nitro-phenoxyacetate linker allows a fast and quantitative cleavage us
ing mild basic conditions, This method combined with the trichloroacetimida
te glycosylation exhibits highly promising results as demonstrated for the
synthesis of tetrasaccharide 1 (n = 3) containing glucose beta (1 --> 4) an
d beta (1 --> 6) linkages.