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Fast and flexible synthetic route to the branched tetrasaccharide structures present in many saponins, including the tomato glycoalkaloid a-tomatine.       

  Fast and flexible synthetic route to the branched tetrasaccharide structures present in many saponins, including the tomato glycoalkaloid alpha-tomatine.

Image reproduced by permission of Sergey Nepogodiev

Image reproduced by permission of Sergey Nepogodiev

 

Efficient synthesis of methyl lycotetraoside, the tetrasaccharide constituent of the tomato defence glycoalkaloid -tomatine
Nigel A. Jones, Sergey A. Nepogodiev and Robert A. Field, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2005, 3, 3201
DOI: 10.1039/b508752j