AbstractEasily accessible 1,6‐anhydro‐3,4‐isopropylidene‐β‐D‐galactopyranose has been converted in four steps (i.e., oxidation, reduction, triflation andWaldeninversion with lithium azide or potassium phthalimide) into 1,6‐anhydro‐2‐azido‐ or ‐2‐phthalimido‐2‐deoxy‐3,4‐O‐isopropylidene‐β‐D‐galacto‐ pyranose. The 2‐azido derivative, obtained after acidolysis of the isopropylidene group, could be coupled regioselectively at the hydroxyl group at C‐4 with either 1,3,4,6‐tetra‐O‐acetyl‐2‐phthalimido‐2‐deoxy‐β‐D‐ glucopyranose or 3,4,6‐tri‐O‐acetyl‐2‐phthalimido‐2‐deoxy‐α‐D‐glucopyranosyl bromide in the presence of the soluble cataly