Anhydroald-l-enitols exo-Glycals

In parallel fashion, compound 267, made from 2,3 5,6-di- 9-isopropyl-idene-D-mannono-1,4-lactone by Reformatsky addition using ethyl bromo-acetate and zinc-silver graphite, undergoes ready elimination when converted to the methanesulfonic ester to give a separable mixture of the E- and Z-alkenes (268).251 Quite a different approach involves treatment of the 1-C-nitromannofuranosyl chloride, derived from the oxime of 2,3 5,6-di-O-isopropylidene-D-mannose, with the anion of diethyl malonate to give the disubstituted alkene 269.252 

Acyclic carbohydrate derivatives containing unsaturation, with some exceptions, exhibit much of the chemistry already described for cyclic analogues, and their usefulness should not be overlooked. Unsaturated derivatives of alditols can be made, for example, by standard eliminations from alditol v/r-disulfonates or epoxides or by /f-eliminations from O-substituted 1-deoxy-l-nitroalditols and 1-deoxy-l-sulfonylalditols. Additions of hydrogen and ammonia to the unsaturated nitroalditols made in this way offer, respectively, routes to 2-deoxy- and 2-amino-2-deoxyaldoses.255 

An entirely different approach to unsaturated acyclic derivatives involves the generation of the multiple bonds by use of Wittig-like processes applied to aldehyde substrates with the oxidized carbon atom at either terminus of the carbon chain. Furthermore, the aldehydic moieties may be masked in 

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