Potassium Hydroxide → 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, 0.55 g (5 mmol) of tetramethylammonium chloride and 33.7 g (600 mmol) of fine-powder potassium hydroxide in 350 ml of benzene is cooled to 0° C. At 0° C., 44 g (150 mmol) of 11-bromoundecanoic acid-ethyl ester, dissolved in 50 ml of benzene, is added in drops over 30 minutes while being stirred vigorously. It is stirred for two hours at 20° C. 250 ml of 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 ethanol/50 ml of water. 60 ml of 50% aqueous sodium hydroxide solution is added, and it is refluxed for five hours. 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 dichloromethane, 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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