A selectively protected carbasugar analogue of beta-galactofuranose was synthesised from glucose using ring-closing metathesis as the key step. The carbasugar was converted into an alpha-galacto configured 1,2-epoxide, which was an effective electrophile in Lewis acid catalysed coupling reactions with alcohols. The epoxide was opened with regioselective attack at C-1 to give beta-galacto configured C-1 ethers. Using carbohydrates as nucleophiles, we synthesised a number of pseudodisaccharides. The epoxide was also regioselectively opened at C-1 with a sulfur nucleophile under basic conditions to give a beta-galacto configured C-1 thioether.