tert-Butyl methyl ether → 2,3,4,6-Tetra-O-benzyl-1-O-carboxymethyl-glucopyranose

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A mixture that consists of 54.1 g (100 mmol) of 2,3,4,6-tetra-O-benzyl-glucopyranose, 1.39 g (5 mmol) of tetrabutylammonium chloride and 15.22 g (100 mmol) of DBU in 300 ml of diethoxymethane is cooled to 0° C. At 0° C., 78 g (150 mmol) of 5-tosyloxy-pentanecarboxylic acid-tert-butyl ester, dissolved in 40 ml of tetrahydrofaran, is added in drops over 30 minutes while being stirred vigorously. It is stirred for 3 hours at 0° C. 300 ml of MTB (methyl-tert-butyl ether) is added, solid is filtered out, and the filtrate is evaporated to the dry state in a vacuum. The residue is taken up in 500 ml of methanol. 50 ml of 50% aqueous sodium hydroxide solution is added, and it is refluxed for one hour. It is cooled to 0° C., set at pH 8 with 10% aqueous hydrochloric acid, and then the solvent is distilled off (vacuum). The residue is taken up in 300 ml of water and 500 ml of ethyl acetate, and the pH of the aqueous phase is set at 2 while being stirred (10% aqueous hydrochloric acid). The organic phase is separated, and the aqueous phase is extracted once more with 200 ml of dichloromethane. The combined organic phases are dried on magnesium sulfate, the solvent is distilled off in a vacuum, and the residue is chromatographed on silica gel (mobile solvent: dichloromethane/n=hexane/ethanol/acetic acid=20:5:3:0.5). The product-containing fractions are concentrated by evaporation, dissolved in 400 ml of ethyl acetate, and shaken out three times with 200 ml of water. Then, the organic phase is separated and evaporated to the dry state in a vacuum.

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