Complex and High Molecular Weight Carbohydrates and Di- and Oligosaccharides
		Synthon Chiragenics has a comprehensive technology based on the conversion of these materials into a wide variety of chiral chemical compounds. Using these materials, we have developed access routes to key molecules such as (S)-3,4-dihydroxybutyric acid and (S)-3-hydroxy-g-butyrolactone (1). These routes are protected by several US and international patents. The availability of routes to these and related compounds have allowed us access to a variety of multifunctional chiral intermediates. These intermediates have seen much uses in synthetic organic chemistry for applications ranging from the preparation of a chiral membrane probe (1), pH-sensitive liposomes (2), drug intermediates (3-5), advanced 2-dimensional supramolecular systems (6) and azetidinones (7) among others (8-15).