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Chemists run three carbonylations in one pot to turn aldehydes into threofuranoses
A rhodium cascade assembles a threofuranose ring from an aldehyde in one operation. The authors' larger claim is that carbonylative cascades can stand in for the protecting-group sequences sugar chemistry runs on.
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