General approaches involve the nucleophilic cycloalkylation, carbenoids addition of certain amino acid derivatives and derivatization from simple cyclopropane compounds.
For polysaccharide synthescs,ring open-ing polymerizatlon of 1,6-,1,4-,1,3-,and 1,2-anhydro sngars,and polycondensation of cya-noethylidene trityl ether sugars are described.