Fraser competence

To test the validity of their assumption, Mootoo and Fraser-Reid prepared NPGs 12-18 and treated them with NBS in 1% aqueous acetonitrile [16]. Their results, summarized in O Table 1, showed that differently substituted NPGs could be chemoselectively liberated at the anomeric center to yield hemiacetals 19-24. Furthermore, benzylidene, silyl, p-methoxybenzyl (PMB), ethoxyethyl, and allyl protecting groups proved to be compatible with the conditions employed in the deprotection of the anomeric pent-4-enyl group. Diol 18, however, furnished a complex reaction mixture probably related to competing glycosylation processes, vide infra. 

Under-16s can make healthcare decisions, if Fraser/Gillick competent. 

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