Conversion of a readily available carbohydrate raw material into a rare l-deoxyhexose

From a Carbohydrate Raw Material to an Important Building Block: Cost-Efficient Conversion of d-Fructose into 2-Deoxy-l-ribose

“…A long-term goal in this laboratory is to develop practical synthetic methodologies for the conversion of naturally occurring and inexpensive d -sugars into rare and important l -deoxysugars or l -deoxyribonucleosides . Although we had partial success in developing a carbonyl translocation process to produce l -deoxysugar derivatives from d -sugars, a cost-efficient synthetic approach for converting a carbohydrate raw material into an important building block would be of considerable value to the pharmaceutical industry.…”