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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Nov 5.
Published in final edited form as: J Org Chem. 2021 Oct 12;86(21):14381–14397. doi: 10.1021/acs.joc.1c01091

Figure 1.

Figure 1.

Structures of N-acetylneuraminic acid (Neu5Ac, 1), the most abundant natural sialic acid form, and its naturally occurring O-acetylated forms 7-O-acetyl-N-acetylneuraminic acid (Neu5,7Ac2, 2) and 7,9-di-O-acetyl-N-acetylneuraminic acid (Neu5,7,9Ac3, 3).