4-Amino-4,5-dideoxy-L-lyxose

Good diastereoselectivities were observed for the hetero Diels-Alder addition of homochiral 1,3-dienes with achiral acyl-nitroso dienophiles. An example is shown in Scheme 13.85 for the total synthesis of 4-amino-4,5-dideoxy-L-lyxose derivatives 300 and 301, potent inhibitors of a-L-fucosidase [160]. 

SCHEME 13.85 Defoin s syntheses of 4-amino-4,5-dideoxy-L-lyxose derivatives. 

Hetero-Diels-Alder reactions have been used in the construction of amino-sugars, asymmetry being induced by the use of either a chiral Lewis acid catalyst or a chiral auxiliary. Thus, the 3-amino-hexuronic acid derivatives 61 were obtained with high de and ee using a copper(II) triflate catalyst with a chiral bisoxazoline ligand. 4-Amino-4-deoxy-D-erythrose and 4-amino-4,5-dideoxy-L-lyxose (63), the latter a potent inhibitor of a-L-fucosidase, were obtained from the D-pyroglutamic add-containing diene 62 (Scheme 19). ... 

Fucosidase inhibiting l,4,5-trideoxy-l,4-imino-L-lyxitol (78) was prepared [124] from D-ribose via protected 5-amino-5-deoxy-L-lyxose (79) by a chemical route. This compound, as well as the 1-aminomethyl homologue (80), obtained by Kiliani-Fischer chain extension of (79), inhibited a-L-fucosidase with K around 2 pmol/1. l,4-Dideoxy-l,4-imino-D-iditol (81) [71] was found to be a moderate inhibitor of the enzyme. 

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