Synlett 2013; 24(18): 2427-2430
DOI: 10.1055/s-0033-1339905
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© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York

Direct Access to Iminosugars through an Interrupted Kondrat’eva Reaction

Zena Qadoumi
Department of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, Canada   Fax: +1(778)7823765   Email: rbritton@sfu.ca
,
James Senior
Department of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, Canada   Fax: +1(778)7823765   Email: rbritton@sfu.ca
,
Milan Bergeron-Brlek
Department of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, Canada   Fax: +1(778)7823765   Email: rbritton@sfu.ca
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Robert Britton*
Department of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, Canada   Fax: +1(778)7823765   Email: rbritton@sfu.ca
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Publication History

Received: 02 August 2013

Accepted after revision: 12 September 2013

Publication Date:
07 October 2013 (online)


Abstract

A concise synthesis of an iminosugar from an oxazole is presented that involves an interrupted inverse electron-demand Kondrat’eva reaction.

Supporting Information

 
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