Recent advances in boron-mediated aglycon delivery (BMAD) for the efficient synthesis of 1,2-cis glycosides.

Highly stereoselective synthesis of 1,2-cis glycosides remains a challenging task due to the lack of reliable neighboring group participation (NGP) from the 2-O-acyl functionality in the glycosyl donor. In this context, our group recently developed highly 1,2-cis-stereoselective glycosylation methods, named boron-mediated aglycon delivery (BMAD), using organoboron reagents and 1,2-anhydroglycosyl donors. In this mini-review article, we introduce the BMAD methods and their applications to the synthesis of biologically active natural products and complex glycosides reported since our mini-review article published in this journal in 2017.