Methyl D-callipeltose 12 and D-callipeltose 4 were synthesized from D-gluca
l 5 in 10 and 11 steps, respectively. The synthesis features an azide displ
acement reaction of an alpha -nosyloxy ketone 7 and a highly diastereoselec
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