An efficient palladium catalyzed C-glycosylation of glycals with enol triflates has been established. The coupling reactions took place on the anomeric carbon, and the coupling products gave exclusively α isomers. The flexibility of the reaction was exemplified by the broad spectra of substrate scope, constituted of glycals protected with good leaving groups as well as an assortment of enol triflates.
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