“…Likewise, although sugar conjugation is known to influence small-molecule mechanisms, potency, and ADMET, [1a, e, 20] a lack of practical synthetic or chemoenzymatic access has limited studies to probe the fundamental properties of quaternary N-glycosides. [10,11] Our discovery offers a convenient new model for GT-catalyzed tertiary-amine N-glycosylation and a potential complementary synthetic platform for efficient one-step synthesis of quaternary N-glycosides. In a similar fashion, the discovery that OleD Loki is an efficient catalyst for hydroxamate glycosyl ester synthesis further extends the demonstrated synthetic utility of this permissive catalyst.…”