“…Nearly all these naturally-occurring iminosugars, as well as the majority of synthetic azapyranose sugars, elicit some sort of biological response [ 6 ]. Although great efforts have been made and numerous synthetic procedures have been developed for the synthesis of iminosugars [ 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 ], efficient methods for the rapid generation of azapyranoses with the structural diversity necessary for in-depth structure-activity studies are still lacking. Due to the versatile reactivities of the nitrone functionality, synthetic methods based on sugar-derived cyclic nitrones have emerged as a potentially powerful strategy for the diversity-oriented synthesis of iminosugars among the existing approaches [ 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 ].…”