“…Some conduramines have significant glycosidase inhibitory activity, but they are of much greater importance as synthetic precursors of amino- and diaminocyclitols, many of which constitute the aglycon portions of the therapeutically useful aminoglycoside antibiotics. In addition, conduramines have been utilized as intermediates in the preparation of azasugars, aminosugars, sphingosines, and narcissus alkaloids . Given the importance of conduramines as synthetic building blocks, it is not surprising that so much effort has been devoted to the development of useful preparative routes to these compounds 3a,e,o,8 and their derivatives. 3d,f-h,j-l,n,− , Hudlicky et al (op.…”