PROTECTING AND LINKING GROUPS FOR ORGANIC SYNTHESIS

摘要

This invention relates to methods for synthesis of organic compounds, and in particular to compounds useful as protecting and linking groups for use in the synthesis of peptides, oligosaccharides, glycopeptides and glycolipids. The invention provides protecting and linking groups which are useful in both solid phase and solution synthesis, and are particularly applicable to combinatorial synthesis. In its most general aspect, the invention provides a cyclic compound of general formula (I).