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The one-carbon elongation of aldoses to ketoses using iodomethyllithium as the key reagent in the homologation step is exemplified by the preparation of two carbohydrates of chemical and biological interests: d-manno-hept-2-ulose from d-mannose and l-fructose from l-arabinose.
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Bessières et al. (2003) studied this question.
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