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In recent years attention has been directed toward the synthesis of modified sugars wherein the oxygen atom in the sugar ring is replaced by sulfur, selenium or phosphorus. Synthesis of sugar analogs with phosphorus as the ring heteroatom is interesting from the point of view of their possible biological activity.
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Witczak et al. (1983) studied this question.
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