“…In contrast, the construction of our desired 1,2- ci s α- O -glucoside is much more challenging. It requires glycosyl donors having nonassisting functionality at C-2 position, and even so, the reaction normally produces a mixture of α and β isomers [ 30 , 31 , 32 ]. In this work, we chose 2,3,4,6-tetra- O -benzyl-glucopyranosyl trichloroacetimidate 6 as the glucosyl donor, which was synthesized from 2,3,4,6-tetra- O -benzyl glucose with trichloroacetonitrile in dichloromethane (DCM) using anhydrous potassium carbonate as catalysis (98% yield, α:β ≈ 1:4) [ 33 , 34 ].…”