Three-component assembly of amines, boronic acids, and a polyfunctionalized furanose: a concise entry to furanose-based carbohydrate templates.

A highly functionalyzed furanose derivative, accessible in five steps from D-mannose, comprising a halo-alkenyl allylic-oxirane system, undergoes a palladium catalyzed one-pot, three component, assembly with boronic acids (or alkyl boranes) and amines to give, in a complete regio- and stereocontrolled manner, a sugar based derivative with two sites of molecular diversity.