Hydrolytically stable non‐glycosidically linked tail‐to‐tail pseudodisaccharides are linked by a single bridging atom remote from the anomeric centre of the constituent monosaccharides. Some such pseudodisaccharides with sulfur or oxygen bridges were found to act as disaccharide mimetics in their binding to the Banana Lectin and to Concanavalin A. A versatile synthetic route to a small library of such compounds is described.

Aromaticity lost: In the presence of [{Ir(cod)Cl}2] and a binol‐derived phosphoramidite ligand, spirocyclohexadienone derivatives were obtained with up to 97 % ee through iridium‐catalyzed intramolecular asymmetric allylic dearomatization of phenols (see scheme; cod=cycloocta‐1,5‐diene).

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Amine-linked pseudodisaccharides based on valienamine were synthesised by C-N bond-forming reactions between valienol-derived C-1 electrophiles and carbohydrate nitrogen nucleophiles. Palladium-catalysed coupling with trichloroacetimidate leaving groups, Mitsunobu reactions with a nosylamide nucleophile, and alkylation of amines by C-1 bromides were investigated.