“…To improve the glycoside synthesis, several soluble silver salts were introduced as promoters for the activation of glycosyl bromides. These salts include silver acetate, , which led to the predominant 1- O -acetylation, silver nitrate first studied by Koenigs and Knorr, and in a greater detail investigated by Knöchel et al , Several other soluble silver salts were explored including perchlorate, , tetrafluoroborate, , hexafluorophosphate, and trifluoromethanesulfonate (triflate) . While being efficient activators, these silver salts required multiple equivalents of the acid scavenger to be added in these reactions.…”