“…A variety of reactions, such as the Julia olefination, Wittig reaction, methylenation with the Tebbe reagent or Petasis reagent, dihalomethylenation with tris(dimethylamino)phosphine or triphenylphosphine and carbon tetrahalide, as well as nucleophilic addition of organometallic compounds and subsequent dehydration, are used to synthesize exo -glycals from sugar lactones. Many other methods have been reported, such as the Ramberg–Bäcklund rearrangement of glycosyl sulfones, Wittig reaction with glycosyl phosphonium salts, Keck allylation of 1-bromoglycosyl chlorides and dehydrochlorination, Bamford–Stevens reaction, [2,3]-Wittig rearrangement of 1- C -alkenylglycosides, β-elimination reaction, Claisen rearrangement or S N 1′-type substitution of 1- C -vinylglycosides, and base-promoted alkynol cycloisomerization …”