Following a new four-step route, we prepared a family of "extended" glucidoamphiphiles from Dglucose, D-galactose, and xylitol in which the n-dodecyl chain is attached to the glucidic moiety by the linkage Z = O-Et-O-Et-O-(α-PP-O-) n , where -O-(α-PP-O-) n is a poly-(α-propyloxy) commercial oligomeric mixture (with average length n = 6, 10, and 14). This amphiphilic behavior study showed that (i) the glucose derivative exhibits water solubility and hydrophilic-lipophilic balance values that are close to those found for the glucose compound with Z = -O-(α-PP-O-) n (without the Et-O-Et group), (ii) all these compounds are more strongly hydrophilic than the corresponding glucidic derivatives with Z = O, (iii) the increase of the poly-(α-propyloxy) chain length from ñ = 6 to ñ = 14 tends to reduce the hydrophilicity slightly.In a companion paper (1) comparing of the surfactant properties of 3-O-n-dodecyl-D-glucopyranose (23) and its "extended" homolog 3-O-n-dodecyl-O-(α-PP-O-) n -D-glucopyranose (8) in which (α-PP-O-) n = poly-(α-propyloxy) with ñ = 6, we showed that compound 8 exhibited a 100-fold increase in water solubility and a four-unit increase in hydrophiliclipophilic balance (HLB) with respect to compound 23. These results stimulated us to prepare and study the properties of the structural analogs of 8 with different glucidic moieties and of variable poly-(α-propyloxy) length. Before proceeding further, we tried to analyze the reasons for the low overall yield (10%) encountered in the synthesis of the "extended" species 8 along a six-step route (Scheme 1). This was obviously a consequence of the key step e, which required an activated substrate with a leaving group (OMs) linked to a primary carbon to introduce the glucose derivative 6. In the starting oligomeric mixture, 1, there was a secondary carbon at one of the extremities and a primary carbon at the other. Therefore, we first protected this position regiospecifically by a trityl group (step a). Subsequently, the alkyl chain, R, was introduced at the terminal secondary carbon with n-dodecyl bromide (step b). To obtain the activated intermediate, 5, the trityl group was then removed (step c) to introduce the mesylate group (step d), which was substituted by 1,2:5,6-di-O-isopropylidene-α-D-glucopyranose (6). Final desacetalation (step f ) produced the expected compound 8.In the present paper, we describe an alternative four-step route to attain slightly different "extended" glucidoamphiphiles such as compound 18 (Scheme 2), in which a diethyloxy group is introduced between the glucidic moiety and the poly-(α-propyloxy) spacer arm. This strategy is applied in preparing the corresponding D-glucose, D-galactose, and DL-xylitol derivatives with poly-(α-propyloxy) oligomers having an average degree of condensation, ñ, ranging from 6 to 14. This new "extended" glucidoamphiphile family includes enough members that some conclusions can be drawn on the influence of the di-ethyloxy group, the poly-(α-propyloxy) oligomer chain length, and the glucidic moiety on the ...