Expedient and versatile formation of novel amino-deoxy-ketoheptuloses.

Novel monoketoheptuloses have been synthesized employing an amination step in a pre- and/or post-C1 chain elongation using a Petasis reagent by starting from aldohexoses or aldohexosamines. A series of gluco and manno configured 1-/3-deoxy-1-/3-amino-ketohept-2-uloses could be obtained.