Recently, we described the high-yield synthesis of chiral [2.2.1J cryptands incorporating carbohydrates. Models show that variations of substituents in the carbohydrate fragment, e.g. in 4,6-O-acetals, may lead to asymmetric modifications in close proximity to the molecular cavity of the ligand, and therefore, to changes in enantiomeric differentiation. We wanted to obtain the cryptand2with an axial phenyl group, as shown in Fig.1, which is in contrast to a cryptand (1) obtained earlier with an equatorial phenyl group.