A reliable and high yielding synthetic pathway for the synthesis of the biologically highly important class of nucleoside diphosphate sugars (NDP-sugars) was developed by using various cycloSal-nucleotides 1 and 9 as active ester building blocks. The reaction with anomerically pure pyranosyl-1-phosphates 2 led to the target NDP-sugars 20-45 in a nucleophilic displacement reaction, which cleaves the cycloSal moiety in anomerically pure forms. As nucleosides cytidine, uridine, thymidine, adenosine, 2'-deoxy-guanosine and 2',3'-dideoxy-2',3'-didehydrothymidine were used while the phosphates of D-glucose, D-galactose, D-mannose, D-NAc-glucosamine, D-NAc-galactosamine, D-fucose, L-fucose as well as 6-deoxy-D-gulose were introduced.

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A new efficient method for the synthesis of nucleoside diphosphate glycopyranoses is based on cycloSal-approach. This new chemical synthesis uses cyclosaligenyl nucleoside phosphate triester as an active phosphate ester. In comparison with other known methods NDP sugars can be synthesised in short reaction times and convincing chemical yields. The method allows the preparation of anomerically pure NDP glycopyranoses.

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