An efficient synthesis of analogues of unsymmetrical archaeal tetraether glycolipids

Abstract

Unsymmetrical tetraether analogues of glycolipids found in archaebacteria, possessing either two different carbohydrate units or a saccharidic moiety and a phosphate group as polar heads and a quasi-macrocyclic lipid core, are efficiently synthesized from versatile chiral building blocks.

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