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The Synthesis of Antibiotic Sugars
Author(s) -
Brimacombe J. S.
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition in english
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 0570-0833
DOI - 10.1002/anie.197102361
Subject(s) - carbohydrate , sugar , antibiotics , chemistry , amino sugar , biochemistry , combinatorial chemistry
The term antibiotic sugar denotes the carbohydrate component of an antibiotic. Two alternative approaches are adopted for the synthesis of these neutral and amino sugars, many of which have unusual structures: One route starts from fairly simple non‐carbohydrate precursors, the other depending upon the modification of a carbohydrate precursor.