In the realm of reactivity, the vinyl carbocation is a beast so fleeting, so keen to combine or rearrange, that many have doubted that it can be tamed to create molecules in a stereoselective way. But ...

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The design of mechanism-based enzyme inactivators to generate chemical probes for biological research is an important challenge in carbohydrate chemistry. Here we describe the synthesis and biological ...