“…When the same reaction was effected with silver silicate as the promoter and molecular sieves 4A under heterogenous catalysis mode, the glycosylation occurred mainly on the axial group HO-4', affording the /3-(l-*-4)linked trisaccharide (86% yield), together with the d-(l-*-3)-linked isomer in 8% yield. 237 Glycosylation of the same diol containing acceptor with hexa-0-acetyl-2-deoxy-2-phthalimido-/3-D-lactosaminyl bromide under homogeneous catalysis (silver triflate) afforded the /3-(l-*-3)-linked tetrasaccharide in 65% yield, whereas heterogeneous catalysis (silver silicate) forded mainly the /3f l-*-4) tetrasaccharide.238 When 4,6-di-0-acetyl-3-0-(2,3,4,6-tetra-0-acetyl-/8-Dgalactopyranosyl)-2-deoxy-2-phthalimido-D-galactopyranosyl bromide was reacted with the same diol acceptor under homogeneous catalysis using mercuric cyanide and mercuric bromide, the corresponding /3-(l-^3)linked trisaccharide was obtained in 25% yield.236 239 When 3,4,6-tri-0-acetyl-2-deoxy-2-phthalimido-D-galactopyranosyl bromide was used as the donor, good yields but a poor regioselective glycosylation trend were observed.239 Also, glycosylation of the HO-3' of the diol acceptor methyl 3,6-di-0-acetyl-4-0-( 2 in 64% yield. 240 The latter was further transformed into glycopyranosyl chloride and condensed again with the same acceptor to give the /3-(l-*-3)-linked hexasaccharide.…”