“…It is interesting to note that, along with a sweet taste, stevioside I, the dominant glycoside of S. rebaudiana shows a broad-spectrum biological activity [2,3], but, to our knowledge, most effort on chemical and enzymatic modifications of both stevioside I and glycosides from other plants of the genus Stevia was directed to sweetness enhancement and limited to variation of the number of carbohydrate moieties attached to the aglycone [1,3]. An exception is the S. rebaudiana glycoside steviolbioside II [4] which was transformed into amides, esters, and hydrazides [5][6][7][8][9]. It will be emphasized that the authors of these works functionalized no other groups in steviolbioside II but carboxyl.…”