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A chemical synthesis of Kdo was achieved via the condensation of a protected D-mannofuranose-5,6-cyclic sulfate with ethyl 1,3-dithiane-2-carboxylate, which is an efficient equivalent for installing an α-ketoester unit as a key step.
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Ichiyanagi et al. (2009) studied this question.
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