Abstract
A very elegant Fraser-Reid armed-disarmed approach recently expanded to the building blocks of the superarmed and superdisarmed series shows very high utility in chemoselective oligosaccharide synthesis. Although a number of studies dedicated to the chemoselective activation of 2-amino-2-deoxysugars have emerged, little remains known about how the reactivity of the armed/disarmed building blocks of the neutral sugars directly compares to that of their 2-aminosugar counterparts. A preliminary study of this comparative reactivity is presented.