Epoxides of d-fructose and l-sorbose: A convenient class of “click” functionality for the synthesis of a rare family of amino- and thio-sugars

Modern Synthetic Strategies with Organoselenium Reagents: A Focus on Vinyl Selenones

“…These reactions nicely complement vinyl sulfone-mediated transformations of sugars. In fact, the easy removal of the selenonyl moiety gave access to completely different reaction pathways [ 42 , 43 ].…”