In this month's Editor's Collection, Associate Editor Xiaohua Liu highlighted 'Chemoselective Activation of Ethyl vs Phenyl Thioglycosides: One-pot Synthesis of Oligosaccharides' by Mc Carthy and Zhu as one of her personal favourite recent Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry articles. Here, we catch up with the authors to find out a little bit more about their research