Olivomycin and related antibiotics

Phenyl 3,4-O-isopropylidene-6-O-pivalyl-β-D-galactopyranoside

“…Carbohydrates play a central role in the synthesis of various biological natural products (Berlin et al, 1969;Berlin et al, 1974). In particular, galactose is a monosaccharide exploited as a building block in various biological structures (Du et al, 2000;Knuhr et al, 2001).…”