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Laxminarayan Sahoo1, Anadi Singhamahapatra, Keshav Kumar
1Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036, India.
Abstract:
Triazole-linked diversely functionalized divalent glycoconjugates were synthesized using Cu(I) catalyzed [3+2] cycloaddition reaction of the desired azides and alkynes. A series of per-O-acetylated glycopyranosyl azides and per-O-acetylated glucopyranosyl azidoacetamide were reacted with nitro- and cyano-functionalized dialkyne building blocks as precursors of α- and β-amino acids, respectively. To introduce more conformational flexibility in the divalent molecules, peptoid-based triazole-linked divalent glycoconjugate was also synthesized.
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