Irina A. Ivanova, Andrew J. Ross, Michael A. J. Ferguson and Andrei V. Nikolaev
A set of phosphodisaccharides, substrate analogues, which will be used to study the acceptor substrate specificity of the Leishmania biosynthetic enzymes, have been synthesized using the trichloroacetimidate method for the glycosylation reactions, SN2 nucleophilic displacement of triflic esters for epimerization and the glycosyl hydrogenphosphonate method for phosphorylation.