A practical synthesis of acylated glycosyl isothiocyanates fromsugar oxazolines, by reaction with thiophosgene, is reported.In the absence of any additive, the reaction is governed bythe reverse anomeric effect, leading to the equatoriallyoriented isothiocyanate. However, in the presence of copper(II) chloride, the reaction proceeds preferentially withretention of the configuration at the anomeric center,providing the axial anomer as the major product. Noteworthy,this strategy allows accessing per-
O-acetylated glycopyranosyl isothiocyanates with 1,2-cis relative configuration (e.g.,the
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-anomer in the
D-gluco and
D-galacto series), a problemthat was outside the scope of previous methodologies.