L-fucose from vitamin C with only acetonide protection.

Addition of human milk oligosaccharides (HMO) to baby foods may protect infants from disease. As many simple HMOs are fucosylated this is likely to increase the demand for L-fucose as a synthetic building block. Any chemical synthesis must be cheap to compete with a biotechnological process. Acetoni...

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Main Authors: Liu, Z, Yoshihara, A, Wormald, MR, Jenkinson, S, Gibson, V, Izumori, K, Fleet, G
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: American Chemical Society 2014