Solid-phase lipid synthesis (SPLS)-2: incidental discovery of organogelators based on artificial glycolipids

Here we report a new solid-phase (glyco)lipid synthesis (SPLS), which gives traceless glycolipids using an acetal linker. During the synthesis, we incidentally found some of the artificial glycolipids act as good organogelators, the property of which is greatly dependent on the modular saccharide structure.