Thieme Gruppe, Synlett: Accounts and Rapid Communications in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, 19(2009), p. 3099-3102, 2009
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The first synthesis of the inositol-containing marine glycolipid dioctadecanoyl discoside is reported. The key glycosylation reaction proceeds with beta-selectivity at reduced temperature. The separable anomers could be readily progressed to afford discoside, its peracetate and the unnatural beta-derivatives.