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A partial structure of many glycoproteins, the complex undecasaccharide–asparagine conjugate 1 was obtained for the first time by total synthesis. Crucial to the synthesis was a combination of modern chemical and enzymatic methods, which reduced the overall number of steps and allowed efficient deprotonation.
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