1987 Volume 35 Issue 5 Pages 2136-2139
An aminoglycoside antibiotic, dibekacin (=3', 4'-dideoxykanamycin B) (22), has been synthesized from D-glucosamine and D-glucose using an oxidative decarboxylation reaction with lead tetraacetate and a reductive deacetoxylation reaction with sodium borohydride as keyreactions.